Re: Support for filesystem snapshots (?)

On 2010-08-03 12:56:28 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:33:28AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Kernel-level buffers are taken into account. Application buffers
> > aren't, the application has to take care of that. But if the
> > Subversion fails to do that, it cannot recover from file system
> > crashes, either, which is arguably a bug in Subversion.
>
> Subversion carefully flushes file buffers after writing revision files.

What do you mean by "flushes file buffers"? A call to fflush()?
Or a call to sync() or fsync() too?

Assuming the filesystem is on a remote machine (say, NFS), the
necessary needs to be done on the client side: the NFS server
cannot take into account the kernel-level buffers of the client.

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