Re: Might have found a bug...

[patl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Patrick J. LoPresti)]

Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> XFS uses delayed allocation / delayed write by default any data
> written immediacy before a crash probably won't be on disk, this is
> known behavior and isn't considered a bug, it's a trade off.

Is this true even if I call fsync() or fdatasync() on the file?

I am wondering about this because some applications (e.g., qmail)
create a temp file, call fsync() to flush it to stable storage, use
rename() to "commit" the file to its final home.

With XFS, is this a reliable way to update a file on disk, or not?

 - Pat