On 9 April 2018 at 11:50, Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@altatus.com> wrote:
What you seem to be asking for is the capability of dropping buffers over the (kernel) fence and idemnifying the application from any further responsibility, i.e. a hard assurance that either the kernel will persist the pages or it will keep them around till the application recovers them asynchronously, the filesystem is unmounted, or the system is rebooted.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable position to take, frankly.
The whole _point_ of an Operating System should be that you can do exactly that. As a developer I should be able to call write() and fsync() and know that if both calls have succeeded then the result is on disk, no matter what another application has done in the meantime. If that's a "difficult" problem then that's the OS's problem, not mine. If the OS doesn't do that, it's _not_doing_its_job_.
