Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 00:21:48 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting Greg Lehey's rawio.c from FreeBSD to Linux... Message-ID: <199905010721.AAA25403@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 May 1999 09:14:09 %2B0200." <372AA9C1.4ABC9C1B@pipeline.ch>
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>Matthew Jacob wrote: >> For raw pattern testing Linux has a special challenge since you right >> directly into the buffer cache. There *is* a BLKFLSBUF ioctl that can try >> and force a flush but this probably ought to be written to use O_FSYNC- I >> think that the ll_rw code might use it or an fsync could be done... > >Linux' fsync() works only on directories, not on files. Huh? That doesn't make any sense. The "f" in fsync() stands for "file". -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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