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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:33:46 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, then maybe we'd just want some flag to fsync()
> > telling the kernel to also sync the parent directory
> > of the file and do whatever it needs to do to get the
> > rename() or link() committed ?
>
> Heck, you can't tell the kernel to do rename/link/open/unlink
> synchronously in-band. This list doesn't care for other OS's.
> The semantics FreeBSD (e. g.) offers ARE indeed documented.

Go back a few posts and read about the semantics
FreeBSD has when the filesystem is mounted with
softupdates.

Then take a deep breath.

regards,

Rik
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