On 25-10-2012 02:45:41 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> > can't you use os.fdatasync() or os.fsync() instead?
> 
> os.fdatasync() or os.fsync() only work for single files, right? We don't
> want to sync them individually, since that wastes disk bandwidth. It's
> much more efficient to sync the whole filesystem at once, like syncfs does.

You use syncfs, which according to the man-page requires a
filedescriptor.  Hence my suggestion.


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Fabian Groffen
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