Jeff Patten wrote in a message to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 JdBP>   You *always* want to ensure filesystem synchronisation. 

 JP>    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this thread
 JP> originally about how a virus (or whatever) could
 JP> access/trash hard drives under OS/2?  I would think such
 JP> beasties wouldn't really care if the fs was synced or not...

The point is that it is up to the operating system to make sure that the
file system stays synchronized for exactly this reason.
 
-- Mike


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