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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > The standard is only useful if it specifies how to get data safely on
> > disk - it is quite explicit for fsync(), but you evidently cannot
> > fsync() a link().
> 
> As Linus said, fsync() on the directory.

Relying on that to work on other operating systems is no better than
demanding synchronous meta data writes: relying on undocumented
behaviour.

If we spake about Linux-specific applications, that'd be okay, but we
speak about portable applications, and the diversity is bigger than
useful. Speed is not the only problem the OS has to solve.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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