On 2018-07-11, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> wrote:
> The effects of fsync are impossible to see unless you hard-reboot the
> machine.

Are you sure non-fsynced changes are are guaranteed to be visible on
block cache level? E.g. if you mix read/write and mmaped I/O from
different processes?

> I wonder if it wouldn't be more robust to use nspawn's syscall filter
> to filter the fsync calls.

Can the syscall filter fake a success of the syscall return value?
Correctly written applications check fsync() return value and forward
the error.

-- Petr
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