Re: fsync error reporting

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 08:47:16AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > I see our man page addresses this with FDISKSYNC.   It sounds like you
 > aren't proposing to change this (makes sense), but there's the pesky
 > issue of errors within the disk when writing from cache to media.
 > Perhaps those are unreportable.

Well, maybe I am. As I said in the original post, punting this issue
to applications via an obscure interface that most won't know about
doesn't seem like the right approach.

But it's pretty much a separate issue.

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David A. Holland
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