Re: Fwd: Is the fsync() fake on FreeBSD6.1? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fwd: Is the fsync() fake on FreeBSD6.1?
Date
Msg-id 9588.1158952269@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fwd: Is the fsync() fake on FreeBSD6.1?  (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
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mark@mark.mielke.cc writes:
> I don't believe that fsync() on Linux syncs the whole file system
> either.

Indeed.  I'd disregard this as coming from someone who knows much
less than he thinks.

(The most likely explanation for his results, I expect, is that FreeBSD
is trying to fsync and the disk drive is lying to it, whereas on his
comparison Linux machine the drive is not configured to lie about
write-complete.)
        regards, tom lane


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