From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting 'sync' to flush disk cache?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:34:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155584098.2886.271.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E0C373.6060008@garzik.org>
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So... has anybody given any thought to enabling fsync(2), fdatasync(2),
> and sync_file_range(2) issuing a [FLUSH|SYNCHRONIZE] CACHE command?
>
> This has bugged me for _years_, that Linux does not do this. Looking at
> forums on the web, it bugs a lot of other people too.
eh afaik 2.6.17 and such do this if you have barriers enabled...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-14 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 18:39 Jeff Garzik
2006-08-14 19:34 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-14 20:15 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-14 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
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2006-08-14 23:09 ` Robert Hancock
2006-08-15 5:45 ` Jens Axboe
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