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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p2k, fsync
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed,  7 Feb 2001 10:23:44 -0500
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Fsync etc. is at the wrong level.  The issue is not a system-wide
question, but a file-server question.  As a trivial example of how
to think about this problem,
	disk/kfscmd sync
strikes closer to the way the problem should be handled than
a 'sync' system call.  The details of how a file server backs up
and stabilizes its storage are specific to the server, and should
be implemented by it.  Plan 9 conventions show how to provide
such an interface; the file protocol is not the place.

-rob