Re: 2.4 has O_SYNC bug ?

[Rob van Nieuwkerk]

> Rob van Nieuwkerk <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > But the strange thing is this:  always after 30s the kernel performs
> > extra writes to the CF.  It seems it's flushing some kind of dirty buffer
> > from the buffer cache.  But there is not supposed to be any dirty buffer:
> > all data should have been written already to the CF because the partition
> > was opened with O_SYNC !
> 
> noatime?

For what ?
As you can read in my posting there is no file-system for the data
area, just a raw partition.  And the root-fs is mounted read-only
(and not even active btw) ..

	Rob van Nieuwkerk