[OpenAFS-devel] to fsync() or not to fsync()

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:12:53 -0400


>interesting - I'd be curious to know about some examples that only
>update meta data on fsync(3C) but not the actual file data.

See my other note ... I believe that an fsync() on the client should
result in eventually an fsync() happening on the server.

>at least if you have a file system that is required to satisfy POSIX
>complience I'd wonder how that would work.

Is AFS POSIX compliant?  I am not sure.

--Ken