> > 	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.

So it's fixed it by now, good :) I briefly looked at Linux 2.3.49 kernel
source and there seems to be some code which deals which fsync(),
so it should be fixed for quite some time already.

Jaromir
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