Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:10:30 +1100 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hmm. That's an interesting problem. This is the first time someone's > called it to my attention that syslog was calling fsync() all the time, > and obviously this causes a problem if there's a lot of syslogging going > on and the log files are large.
Pardon my ignorance, but is there any reason that syslog cannot open its logfiles with O_SYNC?
Regards, Damien
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