Hi!
> The patch I sent fully implements O_SYNC (actually, it implements
> O_DSYNC, which is allowed to skip the inode sync if the only attribute
> which has changed is the timestamps) and fdatasync. It's easy for me
> to make the DSYNC selectable via sysctl for full SU compliance, and I
> know of other unixes that already do this --- you really don't want
> existing database applications suddenly to start seeking to the inode
> block for every O_SYNC write.
It looks to me like times updates are upper-bound by once per second,
no? So this should not be (big) issue.
Pavel
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