linux-ext4 - question about fsync

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Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:49:36 +0100
From:	Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@...che.org>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: question about fsync

Hi,

I've recently seen code that does the following:

- opens a file (write append mode) and writes data to it
- opens a 2nd file descriptor for that same file (write append mode as
well) and does an fsync call on this 2nd file descriptor
- closes the 2nd file descriptor
- continues writing to the 1st file descriptor
- etc

Is there a risk that some of the data might not get fsynced to disk? I
mean, is it possible that the 2nd file descriptor doesn't have all the
same metadata as the first one?

Thanks.

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Filipe David Manana,
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