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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:29:47 +0200
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > I didn't check if POSIX folks have thought of that.
> 
> Nice addition.  Easier to use than fsync() - no need to
> open the file - and probably easier to implement in the
> kernel because this way we'll be handing the whole path
> to the kernel, whereas fsync() would have the dubious
> task of finding out how this file can be traced all the
> way down from the root of the filesystem.

If I understand SUS v2 correctly, fsync() must sync meta data
corresponding to the file.

If Linux ext2 doesn't to that, it might be a good idea to change that so
it does.

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Matthias Andree
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