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SubjectRe: imapd and synchronous writes
On 15 Mar 96 at 10:40, Alan Cox wrote:

> > What other option do we application developers have? Until Linux came
> > along, directory updates had always been committed before the call
> > returned. There are no facilities provided to applications to let
> > them specify that a directory update needs to be committed to disk.
>
> Not true. If you have any modern disk controller that re-orders writes
> from its internal cache then you potentially lose. There are file systems
> other than the Linux one that do async writes and will have the same
> properties.

With the difference that a crashing kernel does not affect the writes
to complete... Despite of that you can sometimes change that
behaviour even with software (EIDE maybe excepted, I don't know)

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