Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()
Jamie made a proposal in linux kernel newsgroup.
As I wrote about it in my latest column, it is getting hot. If you are serious about durability, let's make some noise together! more »
My latest column, titled "Lying Computer" was up today.
It's about "sync", which flushes buffers in memory and write to disk physically, then synchronized the state in memory with one on file. It is not done by one single component, but done in rela… more »