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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: Softupdates and NFS semantics for FreeBSD 4.9
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:45:16PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> > Hi, Is the issues mentioned in this email still valid for FreeBSD 4.9
> >=20
> > http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=3D6275775&list=3D158
> Yes, but the same is true without NFS.

FWIW, that's what fsync(2) is for.

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