https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482 ------- Comment #123 From Andrew Morton 2008-05-22 21:26:02 PDT ------- Life's too short to read through all this, but... yes, ext3 does suck-by-design. Always has. I would commend the use of the sync_file_range() syscall on Linux. It can be used to sync a subsection of a file and will not trigger the write-the-whole-world behavior. It will just