On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:23 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Linux does sync on fsync(), MacOS X does not (for internal drives at
> > least).
>
> This would sound extremly bad for MacOS X if true. I hope it is not.
It's true all right - you have to use a special fcntl to do a 'real
fsync'. We (MySQL) found that this was the cause of some table
corruption on OSX. Needless to say, we now do the special foo if on OSX.
Although I hate to think what other apps are out there thinking they're
safe when they're not.
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Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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