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SubjectRe: fsync on large files
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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