On 06/30/2010 03:48 PM, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
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>
> I wonder if it's worthwhile to think about a new system call which
> allows users to provide an array of fd's which are collectively should
> be fsync'ed out at the same time.  Otherwise, we end up issuing
> multiple barrier operations in cases where the application needs to
> do:
>
> 	fsync(control_fd);
> 	fsync(data_fd);
>

The system call exists, it's called io_submit().

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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