Re: Can O_SYNC be implemented by using fsync?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 07:19:53 EDT

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> So what's wrong with calling fsync() after write() then for Oracle --
> this should work -- yes?

If our fsync was efficient then yes. Its possibly a good argument for sorting
out an inode->dirty buffer/page list. That would speed up fsync and make
O_SYNC easy to fix

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