From: Theodore Tso <tytso@valinux.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
tytso@valinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:04:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010521180405.D495@think.thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14ya9b-0004Bc-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010512145338.0D3D6285BF@wawura.off.connect.com.au> <20010521184758.B24682@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010521184758.B24682@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:47:58PM +0100
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> No --- the old BSDs were safe because their directory operations were
> fully synchronous so they *never* needed to be sync'ed manually.
> According to SuS, an application relying on sync directory updates is
> buggy, because SuS simply makes no such guarantees.
>
> Just set chattr +S on the spool dir. That's what the flag is for.
> The biggest problem with that is that it propagates to subdirectories
> and files --- would a version of the flag which applied only to
> directories be a help here?
>
That's probably the right thing to add.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-21 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-12 11:50 Ext2, fsync() and MTA's? Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 14:53 ` Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 15:20 ` Theodore Tso
2001-05-21 17:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-21 22:04 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2001-05-22 15:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-22 16:54 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-24 1:48 ` Marco d'Itri
2001-05-21 17:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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