Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261962AbUKXGkh (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:40:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262085AbUKXGkh (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:40:37 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:48518 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261962AbUKXGkd (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:40:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:40:02 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: mpm@selenic.com, colin@colino.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag Message-Id: <20041123224002.54a0e1e6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <871xejvk3l.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> References: <20041118194959.3f1a3c8e.colin@colino.net> <87653wxqij.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20041124032017.GG8040@waste.org> <87pt237se1.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <20041124053552.GD2460@waste.org> <871xejvk3l.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 642 Lines: 16 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > AFAIK, EXT2 doesn't update all metadata synchronously in sync-mode. It does. I'm actually surprised to discover that [v]fat doesn't support `-o sync'. It's probably a quite practical way of handling these various hotpluggable gadgets and would be a popular addition. It does have the downside that it'll teach our users bad practices.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/