Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:53:22 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:9094 "HELO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:53:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:53:48 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: "Patrick J. LoPresti" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Message-ID: <20010729135348.A3282@weta.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:03:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Ext3 I believe so, Reiserfs I would assume so but Hans can answer definitively Reiserfs does not, nor are creates or unlink operations synchronous. For MTAs it just happens to work: if you fsync the way transactions are written means the metadata for the dirtectories is written as part of the transaction --- but I think this is a quirk and not by design? Chris? --cw - 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/