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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:12:01 +1000
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 
> Furthermore, even the journaling filesystems won't all guarantee that
> the various parts of a rename() operation will all be in the same
> transaction.

umm..  I'd certainly hope that they do guarantee this.

The only operations which can't trivially fit into a single
transaction are write() and truncate().
 
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