In message <20000617000112.A7087@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>me a bit -- and that you can get "synchronous" writes by inserting
>explicit barriers, e.g. with fsync().  It's easy to use fsync() to
>guarantee consistency at critical points *without* taking the hit of 
>doing synchronous writes all the time.

But does fsync() really work on softdep filesystems?  I know that no amount of
syncing guarantees that "df" will report the right amount immediately after
a big delete...

-s