On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> wrote:
El 23/04/13 16:28, Claudio Freire escribió:
Does it flush (ie, fdisk, or in case of journal, more likely an msync?)
Flush in this context means,, "Move entries from temporary storage "RAM/tmpfs" to the permanent storage device in /var/log/journal
Does nothing if Storage is set "volatile" or "none"
Flush in my sentence means calling fsync to assert data is persistent. Also called a barrier[0][1][2][3]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync_%28Unix%29 [1] http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?mount+8 [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/283306/ [3] http://osdir.com/ml/zfs-discuss/2013-02/msg00531.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org