Re: Linux 2.6.29

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-01T06:35:30Z

Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 09:30 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
>
>> I have no idea why we don't have that either. FreeBSD code seems
>> really straightforward.
>>
>
> I just tried using dd with conv=fsync option and that kinda does what
> you mentioned. I see this at the end of strace:
> ---------------------------------
> write(1, "<some data...>"..., 512) = 512
> read(0, ""..., 512) = 0
> fsync(1) = 0
> close(0) = 0
> close(1) = 0
> ---------------------------------
>
> So, maybe GNU folks just don't want to have yet another tool for this.
>

Huh, didn't know dd had grown that. Confusingly similar to the
completely different conv=sync, so its a perfect dd addition. Ooh,
fdatasync too.

J