Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:53:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:53:19 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:55565 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:53:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:53:22 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4 In-Reply-To: <20010801114635.C8839@weta.f00f.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > 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. > > Define 'meta-data' --- linux sync's any inode and/or bitmap > changes, fsyn on a file will ensure it is intact but not that it > can't get lost. Syntactically correct, but quite useless IMHO ;) Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/