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JLS2009: A Btrfs update

Posted Nov 8, 2009 22:04 UTC (Sun) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: JLS2009: A Btrfs update by butlerm
Parent article: JLS2009: A Btrfs update

I don't see that fsync() makes my code (or anyone else's) portable. POSIX gives no useful guarantees on fsync(); different file systems have different requirements for what you have to fsync() in order to really commit a file. So use of fsync() is inherently non-portable.

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