Re: Linux 2.6.29

Matthew Garrett
2009-04-01T23:46:51Z

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:50:40PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:02:26PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> > If we crash during the rsync, the backup logs will yell. If we crash
> > just after the rsync, the backup logs won't know. The data could still
> > be gone.
>
> So have rsync call the sync() system call before it exits.

sync() isn't guaranteed to be synchronous. Treating it as such isn't
portable.
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