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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p2k, fsync
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Date: Wed,  7 Feb 2001 10:06:49 -0500
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Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>:
> What sort of reliability guarantees will the new 9p offer?  In the past,
> Plan 9 had no equivalent of fsync, and no assurance that any particular
> operation was really committed to stable storage.

What do you mean by 'stable storage' and how does 'fsync' assure that?