How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

[Michael Sierchio]

This is extremely important, esp. with Softupdates, since fsync() does
not guarantee a flush of all buffers to the medium.  In order to
implement a stable queue, it would be best to use a different
filesystem.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 7/22/11, Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> wrote:
>
>> From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl>
>> Subject: Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Cc: "Unga" <unga888 at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:37 PM
>> On Friday, July 22, 2011 08:44:00 AM
>> Unga wrote:
>> > How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk?
>> >
>> > I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to
>> disk.
>> >
>> > I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately
>> available to other
>> > users to read.
>>
>> A file doesn't need to be "synced" to disk for other users
>> to read the latest
>> data. The application just needs to call write(2) and the
>> data is available.
>> It will be written to and read from the operating system's
>> file cache. If
>> you're using stdio you can force a write(2) by calling
>> fflush(3).
>>
>> - Pieter
>>
>
> Hi all
>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> fflush(3) after fputs seems to work.
>
> Best regards
> Unga
>
>
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