From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: precise characterization of ext3 atomicity
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:16:04 +0200
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On Thursday 04 September 2003 17:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> > Is it correct to say of ext3 that it guarantees and only guarantees
> > atomicity of writes that do not cross page boundaries?
>
> Yes.

Is that just happenstance, or does Posix or similar mandate it?

Regards,

Daniel

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