Subject: Re: Extension of fsync_range() to permit forcing disk cache flushing
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/16/2004 18:32:59
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On Dec 16, 2004, at 6:20 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

> while you says "permanent storage" is device and environment dependent,
> why do you think flushing disk cache is always needed for your 
> application?

Bill is working on a commercial application that has to provide certain 
types of data guarantees based on input from other applications.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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