From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atomic file data replace API
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:59:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101228025937.GE10149@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=qpQfwZ1vfRjKE063tVvbz0VLmroO_kkvz+N+-@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:51:54PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Since the introduction of ext4, some apps/users have had issues with
> file corruption after a system crash. It's not a bug in the FS AFAIK
> and it's not exclusive to ext4.
> Writing a temp file, fsync, rename is often proposed.
> But how does one preserve meta-data, including file owner?
What's the use case where preserving file ownership matters?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-28 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-27 11:51 Atomic file data replace API Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 13:20 ` Amir Goldstein
2010-12-27 15:53 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 17:20 ` Amir Goldstein
2010-12-27 18:34 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 2:59 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-12-28 17:27 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 19:06 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-28 22:25 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-28 22:36 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-28 22:58 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 9:20 ` Amir Goldstein
2010-12-29 12:42 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 15:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-29 15:35 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 16:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-12-29 17:12 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-29 17:15 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-29 19:30 ` Christian Stroetmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-06 20:01 Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 13:55 ` Mike Fleetwood
2011-01-07 14:01 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 14:10 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 14:58 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:01 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 15:05 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:08 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 15:13 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 15:17 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:12 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-07 16:19 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:26 ` Hubert Kario
2011-01-07 19:29 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-08 14:40 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-26 18:30 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-26 19:30 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-26 21:56 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 16:32 ` Massimo Maggi
2011-01-07 16:34 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-07 19:29 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-08 14:36 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-08 21:43 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-09 15:16 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-09 18:56 ` Thomas Bellman
2011-01-09 19:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2011-01-09 20:13 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-08 1:11 ` Phillip Susi
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