[syslinux] [PATCH v2] extlinux: Make sure ldlinux.sys file is installed

[Paulo Alcantara]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:36 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Actually it turns out that fsync() doesn't guarantee that the directory
> entry has hit disk.  syncfs() is quite new (Linux 2.6.39) so it might be
> better to just use sync() here.  Bootloader installation isn't too
> horribly common anyway.

Yeah, you're right. In the first time I thought that making
ldlinux.sys flushed out to disk would force the filesystem to create
the directory entry and flush it out too - however it might get
created on memory and kept there - whereas ldlinux.sys normally on
disk.

Matt, wouldn't you mind to make a patch that uses sync() there ?

-Paulo Alcantara