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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Junfeng Yang <yjf@stanford.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com, reiser@namesys.com,
	mc@cs.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Do ext2, jfs and reiserfs respect mount -o sync/dirsync option?
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:27:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304102726.GS14495@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0503040136010.9975-100000@elaine24.Stanford.EDU>

On 2005-03-04T01:44:06, Junfeng Yang <yjf@stanford.edu> wrote:

> > That would be a bug.  Please send the e2fsck output.
> 
> Here is the trace
> 
> 1. file system is made with sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F -b 1024 /dev/hda9 60
> and  mounted with -o sync,dirsync
> 
> 1.  operations FiSC did:
> 
> creat(/mnt/sbd0/0001)
> write(/mnt/sbd0/0001)
> rename(/mnt/sbd0/0001, /mnt/sbd0/0002)
> mkdir(/mnt/sbd0/0003)
> 
> 2.  FiSC "crashed" the test machine  after mkdir returns.  Crashed
> disk image can be downloaded at: http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug2/crash.img.bz2

I've run into similar issues. For example, a "touch foo" also isn't
synchronous with -o sync, but stays entirely in the cache. Andrea tells
me this is expected behaviour, so I've given up on this one...


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-04 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04  6:33 [CHECKER] Do ext2, jfs and reiserfs respect mount -o sync/dirsync option? Junfeng Yang
2005-03-04  7:16 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-04  7:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-04  8:01   ` Junfeng Yang
2005-03-07 17:29   ` Alan Cox
2005-03-07 22:29     ` Junfeng Yang
2005-03-07 22:29       ` Junfeng Yang
2005-03-04  8:43 ` [MC] " Junfeng Yang
2005-03-04  9:11   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04  9:44     ` Junfeng Yang
2005-03-04 10:27       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2005-03-04 11:20         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 23:03           ` Junfeng Yang
2005-03-04 23:29             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08  0:31             ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-03-19 22:34               ` Florian Weimer

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