On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:46:37AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > If some kind of sync is required by the application, I think this is > because the application want to ensure the data are really written to > the disk so that their state remains coherent even in case of crash. > If the application is ok to have this kind of data written to > tmpfs (ie in memory), I do not see the interest of using sync at > first. Can someone shows me a valid use case of sync on tmpfs?
I'd agree with your analysis, it's buggy for them to aggressively sync for writes to /tmp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525084938.GB18308@debian
