Re: How does NetBSD handle fsync() that incurs I/O errors?

To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: How does NetBSD handle fsync() that incurs I/O errors?
From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:44:02 -0000 (UTC)

rhialto%falu.nl@localhost (Rhialto) writes:

>Can I at least hope that if fsync() returns an error, and the device
>doesn't recover, that next attempts to fsync() keep reporting the error?

No. The data is lost and the next fsync will only report a failure if the
new fsync operation fails. Even worse, if the write error includes metadata
then the filesystem may panic if it tries to read and interpret the data.

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                                Michael van Elst
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References:
- How does NetBSD handle fsync() that incurs I/O errors?
  - From: Rhialto
- Re: How does NetBSD handle fsync() that incurs I/O errors?
  - From: Jaromír Doleček
- Re: How does NetBSD handle fsync() that incurs I/O errors?
  - From: Rhialto

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