> > 
> > 	For important data the program has the option of using fsync(),
> > 	IIRC this doesn't do anything on ext2fs under linux, which was
> > 	an unpleasant surprise.
> 
> Look at the source - the ext2 fsync traverses a double linked list of dirty
> buffers, schedules an IO on them and wait until it is finished - exactly
> what fsync() should do.
> 

if linux does everything faster and better - why you are trying netbsd at
all?