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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Subject: Re: JFFS2 determine writing state
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Josh Boyer wrote:
> The open call doesn't cause any writes, and close
> is supposed to flush all pending writes before it returns.

Oh, that's interesting.  So on JFFS2, fsync() is unnecessary before close()?

(On other filesystems it's necessary, of course).

-- Jamie