From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Atomic non-durable file write API
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:15:29 -0500
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:14:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to answer. The thread was started due to
> the dpkg issue.

I've talked to the dpkg folks and I believe they are squared away; for
their use case sync_file_range() combined with fsync() should solve
their reliability and performance problem.

						- Ted