Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-12T20:00:11Z

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:56:11PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> No it won't, since if you're using file descriptors there *is* no C
> library buffer. fclose() will, though, and then call close().

Data sits in the page-cache though, and if you loose power before
that's flushed you will loose data. This is why fsync is needed to be
sure.

--cw