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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:51:35PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> From:	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
> Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
> Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:51:35 +0000 (UTC)
....
> Use fsync() on the directory. 
> 
> Logical, isn't it?

  No.  I don't see why I should opendir() a directory, fsync()
that handle, and closedir() the handle.  I would definitely prefer:

       lsync(dirpath)

This could, even, behave like  lstat()  with the path: if the last name
segment is symlink, the sync is done on the i-node data of symlink, not
on what it (possibly) points to.

I didn't check if POSIX folks have thought of that.

> 		Linus

/Matti Aarnio
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