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- Message-Id: <199505012106.HAA26497@flibble.cs.su.oz.au>
- Subject: Re: Possible way to improve Executor/Linux
- To: tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts)
- Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 07:06:18 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: executor@nacm.com
- In-Reply-To: <9505010903.AA09434@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> from "Tim Cutts" at May 1, 95 10:03:30 am
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- > I have discovered that some filesystem problems with E/L 1.99k were
- > due to executor getting confused about the status of files, and that
- > this was particularly a problem with floppy access, and was solved by
- > manually sync'ing the filesystems in another window. So, I figure
- > that perhaps executor ought to call sync(2) after every filesystem
- > write. It would make it a bit slower, but might prevent a lot of
- > these problems. Or has this been done with 1.99m? (I haven't tried it
- > yet)
- >
- > Tim.
-
- fsync(2) would be a better choice.
-
- Stephen
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