From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making fsync() optional
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:01:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EG4bZ-0000RS-EF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtli4t3t.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (message from Romain Francoise on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:45:26 +0200)
> It seems really dumb if there is no way for the CPU to tell the disk,
> "Write these blocks now, and tell me when you're done."
There is a way, but when the drive reports that it has written the
blocks it may just have stored them in its write cache.
How stupid, to make a feature like that not work!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-12 19:27 Making fsync() optional Romain Francoise
2005-09-13 15:55 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-13 18:19 ` Romain Francoise
2005-09-14 14:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-15 8:45 ` Romain Francoise
2005-09-16 1:01 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
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