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Re: SVN backup with lvm snapshots and rsync

From: Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:19:13 +0000

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> writes:

> Unless you do a "sync"
> command, or various low level flush commands, you don't know that you
> write to disk has actually made it to the platter.

Subversion does that. It uses fsync (plus fsync on directories on
Linux) before assuming data is on disk. 

-- 
Philip
Received on 2012-02-16 00:19:53 CET

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