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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:59:56 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:56:11PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> No it won't, since if you're using file descriptors there *is* no C
> library buffer.  fclose() will, though, and then call close().

Data sits in the page-cache though, and if you loose power before
that's flushed you will loose data.  This is why fsync is needed to be
sure.


   --cw