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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Bruce Guenter <lists-reiserfs-list@bruce-guenter.dyndns.org>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Reiserfs concurrent write problems
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:16:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083269786.30344.321.camel@watt.suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429200832.GA7399@em.ca>

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:08, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:19:25PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 15:04, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > > > In reiserfs data=journal mode, you get strict ordering of all the
> > > > transactions.
> > > 
> > > What about in data=ordered mode?
> >
> > It won't work in the face of io errors.
> 
> What kind of I/O errors would cause what kind of problems?

In data=ordered mode if you get io errors on the data blocks, you might
not find out about them until the fsync.  If the fsync is after the
rename, you'll rename a bad file into the delivered directory.

-chris





  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-29 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-26 17:26 Reiserfs concurrent write problems Bruce Guenter
2004-04-26 17:36 ` Chris Mason
2004-04-26 18:12   ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-27 16:15   ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-27 18:00     ` Chris Mason
2004-04-27 20:15       ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-27 23:48         ` Chris Mason
2004-04-28 23:48         ` Chris Mason
2004-04-29 19:04           ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-29 19:19             ` Chris Mason
2004-04-29 20:08               ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-29 20:16                 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2004-04-30 19:54       ` Bruce Guenter
2004-04-30 20:24         ` Chris Mason
2004-04-30 21:44           ` Bruce Guenter
2004-05-01 14:52             ` Dieter Nützel
2004-05-01  9:26         ` Paul Wagland
2004-05-01 12:16           ` Chris Mason

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