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sync_file_range − sync a file segment with disk
#define
_GNU_SOURCE
#include <fcntl.h>
int
sync_file_range(int fd, off64_t
offset, off64_t nbytes,
unsigned int flags);
sync_file_range() permits fine control when synchronizing the open file referred to by the file descriptor fd with disk.
offset is the starting byte of the file range to be synchronized. nbytes specifies the length of the range to be synchronized, in bytes; if nbytes is zero, then all bytes from offset through to the end of file are synchronized. Synchronization is in units of the system page size: offset is rounded down to a page boundary; (offset+nbytes-1) is rounded up to a page boundary.
The
flags bit-mask argument can include any of the
following values:
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE
Wait upon write-out of all pages in the specified range that have already been submitted to the device driver for write-out before performing any write.
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE
Initiate write-out of all dirty pages in the specified range which are not presently submitted write-out. Note that even this may block if you attempt to write more than request queue size.
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER
Wait upon write-out of all pages in the range after performing any write.
Specifying flags as 0 is permitted, as a no-op.
Warning
This system call is extremely dangerous and should not be
used in portable programs. None of these operations writes
out the file’s metadata. Therefore, unless the
application is strictly performing overwrites of
already-instantiated disk blocks, there are no guarantees
that the data will be available after a crash. There is no
user interface to know if a write is purely an overwrite. On
file systems using copy-on-write semantics (e.g.,
btrfs) an overwrite of existing allocated blocks is
impossible. When writing into preallocated space, many file
systems also require calls into the block allocator, which
this system call does not sync out to disk. This system call
does not flush disk write caches and thus does not provide
any data integrity on systems with volatile disk write
caches.
Some details
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE and
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER will detect any I/O errors
or ENOSPC conditions and will return these to the
caller.
Useful
combinations of the flags bits are:
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE
Ensures that all pages in the specified range which were dirty when sync_file_range() was called are placed under write-out. This is a start-write-for-data-integrity operation.
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE
Start write-out of all dirty pages in the specified range which are not presently under write-out. This is an asynchronous flush-to-disk operation. This is not suitable for data integrity operations.
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE (or SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER)
Wait for completion of write-out of all pages in the specified range. This can be used after an earlier SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE operation to wait for completion of that operation, and obtain its result.
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE
| SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE |
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER
This is a write-for-data-integrity operation that will ensure that all pages in the specified range which were dirty when sync_file_range() was called are committed to disk.
On success, sync_file_range() returns 0; on failure −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
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EBADF |
fd is not a valid file descriptor. | ||
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EINVAL |
flags specifies an invalid bit; or offset or nbytes is invalid. | ||
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EIO |
I/O error. | ||
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ENOMEM |
Out of memory. | ||
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ENOSPC |
Out of disk space. | ||
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ESPIPE |
fd refers to something other than a regular file, a block device, a directory, or a symbolic link. |
sync_file_range() appeared on Linux in kernel 2.6.17.
This system call is Linux-specific, and should be avoided in portable programs.
fdatasync(2), fsync(2), msync(2), sync(2), feature_test_macros(7)
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