From: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:59:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020705085917.F27198@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020704220511.GA4728@pelks01.extern.uni-tuebingen.de>; from kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de on Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:05:11AM +0200
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:05:11AM +0200, Daniel Kobras
<kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:13:14PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > an fsync() on any file or directory on the filesystem will ensure that
> > all old transactions have completed, and a sync() will ensure that any
> > old transactions are at least on their way to disk.
>
> With emphasis on 'on the filesystem', I suppose? In other words, if we
> have an ext3 fs on /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt, it is not sufficient to
> fsync("/dev/hda1") to flush the transactions, but fsync("/mnt") will do?
> (Excuse the sloppy notation.)
Right.
--Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-05 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-24 20:02 Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when a laptop is powered by a battery? Miles Lane
2002-06-24 20:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-24 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-25 17:03 ` Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop " Andrew Morton
2002-06-25 17:24 ` Miles Lane
2002-06-25 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03 3:02 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-26 0:13 ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-06-26 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-02 13:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03 3:04 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-28 21:59 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-02 12:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03 3:04 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-04 20:30 ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-04 22:05 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-05 7:59 ` Stephen Tweedie [this message]
2002-07-06 0:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-23 11:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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