On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter J. Braam wrote:

> log based scheme is used. On Linux however, we still need a raw character
> /dev/hda (which does not use the buffer cache) before this is really

Wouldn't fdatasync() or fsync() achieve the same end result, while
allowing higher performance? You could still get some buffering in places
where you don't need things written right away, plus read buffering...

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