Previously Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 01:50:29AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Doesn't work, you can't only sync everything with Linux, not a single > > device or a single file. > > Are you sure? I have the source so I can patch it to do what I want ;) As someone else mentioned you can open a file using O_SYNC, which tells the kernel to do all file-operations synchronously. An option to sync a single file or device is not in there for some very specific reasons. If you want a good explanation you could probably ask Alan Cox, but as far as I know it has to do with ordering of IO requests and related performance issues. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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