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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!hp-cv!hp-pcd!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!hopper.acm.org!ACM.ORG!IAN_VOGT From: ian_vogt@ACM.ORG Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Write-Through the File System Cache? Date: 18 Aug 1994 17:30:27 GMT Organization: ACM Network Services Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3305rj$14k@hopper.acm.org> Reply-To: ian_vogt@ACM.ORG NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.org re: BSDI (but also for others in the *BSD* family) I would like to know if it is possible (without modifying the kernel) for an application to disable delayed write caching (or enable write-through caching) either for the file system as a whole or for a particular file (or file handle). I develop fault tolerant applications requiring that critical file updates be committed to disk before returning from the write call (for recovery purposes). Thank you, Ian