Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:29:53 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: rhuff@cybercom.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and sync Message-ID: <199810201529.IAA04387@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net> References: <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net>
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In article <199810201410.KAA23761@shell1.cybercom.net>,
Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> wrote:
> So, short of umount, is there a program (or system call that
> can be turned into a program) that will cause the filesystem to
> _immediately_ flush unwritten buffers?
For individual files, there is fsync().
John
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