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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, tommy <jiujin.hong@mid-fun.com>,
	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: about ubifs
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:01:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090608120110.GE25684@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244440195.5847.327.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > A filesystem-generic "sync-on-close" mount option would be handy for
> > things like that.
> > 
> > Expecting users to call fsync from a shell script is probably a bit much
> > in a lot of applications.
> 
> Not sure about sync-on-every-close, but ex4-ish
> sync-on-close-if-there-was-truncate makes sense, IMO, and we even plan
> to implement this, we just do not have enough time ATM:
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_sync_exceptions

sync-on-close-if-there-was-a-truncate isn't useful for this case:

    echo 'Stuff' >> logfile
    reboot

I was thinking both sync-on-close and sync-on-close-after-truncate
would be most useful as _generic_ mount options, in the same way that
O_SYNC has generic filesystem support these days.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 12:13 about ubifs tommy
2009-06-05 12:42 ` Corentin Chary
2009-06-05 13:03   ` tommy
2009-06-05 14:04     ` Corentin Chary
2009-06-08  1:35       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-08  1:52         ` tommy
2009-06-08  5:49         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-08 12:01           ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-06-08 12:16             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-08 12:29               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-08 13:30                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-05 16:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-08  9:08 About UBIFS Qiang Wang
2008-07-08  9:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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