From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Atomic non-durable file write API
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:41:46 +0100
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.

It's not just about dpkg, I'm still very interested in answers to my
original questions.

Olaf