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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:57:03 -0700
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
From: David Rees <drees76@gmail.com>
To: Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:57:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Just curious, does MythTV need fsync(), or merely to tell the kernel to
>> begin asynchronously writing data to storage?
>
> quoting the TheadedFileWriter comments
>
> /*
> ?* ? NOTE: This doesn't even try flush our queue of data.
> ?* ? This only ensures that data which has already been sent
> ?* ? to the kernel for this file is written to disk. This
> ?* ? means that if this backend is writing the data over a
> ?* ? network filesystem like NFS, then the data will be visible
> ?* ? to the NFS server after this is called. It is also useful
> ?* ? in preventing the kernel from buffering up so many writes
> ?* ? that they steal the CPU for a long time when the write
> ?* ? to disk actually occurs.
> ?*/

There is no need to fsync data on a NFS mount in Linux anymore.  All
NFS mounts are mounted sync by default now unless you explicitly
specify otherwise (and then you should then know what you're getting
in to).

-Dave
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