> Sadly, you WILL still lose entries if the system crashes before fs metadata
> has been flushed to disk. Unless the inode has the correct size stored, the
> crap fsync()ed to disk doesn't make much difference.
Yep. I can't really think of a case where you wouldn't lose data in case
of for example a hard lock.
> (This is amplified by dcache.)
I'm not that familiar with kernel internals..
To bring up that point : Anyone had a good advice on a good OS internals
book ?? I'm gonna read the 2.2.x kernel sources, so I could use a good
background.
Regards,
Igmar