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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>,
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:25:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

    Note that this is very different from the "link() should be
    synchronous()" mantra we've been hearing over the last days.
    
    These fsync() semantics make lots of sense to me, I'm all
    for it.

And what if the file has hundreds or thousands of links? How do we
cleanly keep track of all those?



  --cw

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