Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 01:55:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/kern vfs_cluster.c src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/vm vm_map Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980521015300.22518C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199805210840.DAA00800@dyson.iquest.net>
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eh? FSYNC MUST return only when all dependencies related to writing th efile in question have been resolved and written to disk.. If it's not doing this then that is a bug! I'm seeing Kirk tomorrow so I'll bring this up.. your assumptions were correct, not the behaviour.. On Thu, 21 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > Julian Elischer said: > > > > can you explain a bit more? > > > Yes... Basically, a FSYNC operation into a UFS with softdep > filesystem doesn't guarantee I/O completion upon return. That > really messes up some assumptions made in the VM code. My > fixes fix that problem. > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, > jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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