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On 10/25/2012 05:32 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 25-10-2012 02:45:41 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> can't you use os.fdatasync() or os.fsync() instead? |
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>> os.fdatasync() or os.fsync() only work for single files, right? We don't |
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>> want to sync them individually, since that wastes disk bandwidth. It's |
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>> much more efficient to sync the whole filesystem at once, like syncfs does. |
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> You use syncfs, which according to the man-page requires a |
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> filedescriptor. Hence my suggestion. |
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Yeah, that's just an artifact of the syncfs api. Apparently the kernel |
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just needs that to map the call back to the relevant filesystem. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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