[Gllug] re: qmail file-system syncing

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:35:01PM +0000, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> > That said, synchronizing the whole filesystem does seem a bit of a
> > kludge at first blush.
>
> Syncing the filesystem simply means flushing any cached writes for the
> filesystem.  There's no such thing as syncing *part* of the filesystem
> (unless you are using "filesystem" to mean "everything under /", as
> opposed to the individual mounted filesystems).

Really?

What's fsync then?

Cheers
Richard

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