On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:18:03PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> 	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.

	Christoph

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