On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Peter Seebach wrote:

: "safe", yes, but there's no promise that a given write will have actually
: taken place physically in the event of a crash, only that the set of writes
: which has happened is expected to be consistent.  qmail may be depending on
: certain operations being really-synchronous.

Hrmpf.

I wonder, hypothetically[!], whether the softdep code could be made to honor
fsync(2).

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)