> On 24-05-2016, at 12:32 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Since I'm not a systems programmer, I wasn't really following the
> other discussion.  But this does interest me since Magma employs a
> complex logging / playback mechanism which does depend on the idea
> that returning from #flush assures all my puts on that Filestreams are
> truly written to the disk.
> 
> Should I be using #sync, instead of #flush?  Could you succinctly
> summarize the difference between the two for a lay-person like myself?

My level of understanding of this is roughly that flush is spelt f-l-u-s-h and sync is spelt s-y-n-c. I don’t understand why a system would ever let things get so out of sync that you would ever need to think of it. When you close a file it seems to me that everything should be cleaned up.


tim
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