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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:22:24 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On 30 Jul 2001, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> performance hit of synchronous data.  Heck, just having link() and
> rename() perform a commit would be good enough for almost all
> applications.

It would be "good enough" for some applications,
but it would be absolutely disastrous for most
applications I run (ie. moving source code around).

Exactly what is wrong with doing fsync() on the
directory ?

Why do you want us to turn link() and rename()
into link_slowly() and rename_slowly() ?

Why can't you use a simple wrapper function to
do this for you ?

cheers,

Rik
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