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flush-on-close

By default, FUSE would issue a flush before the release of a file descriptor. This was considered a bit aggressive and a feature added to give the FUSE server the ability to choose when that happens.

  • flush-on-close=always
  • flush-on-close=never
  • flush-on-close=opened-for-write
  • Defaults to opened-for-write.

For now it defaults to opened-for-write which is less aggressive than the behavior before this feature was added. It should not be a problem because the flush is really only relevant when a file is written to. Given flush is irrelevant for many filesystems in the future a branch specific flag may be added so only files opened on a specific branch would be flushed on close.

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