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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Was able to reproduce "cp: cannot stat file.x: Input/output error"
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:03:57 +0400
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To: David Dabbs <david@dabbs.net>
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Hello

David Dabbs wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Alex Zarochentsev [mailto:zam@namesys.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:07 PM
>>To: David Dabbs
>>Cc: 'Hans Reiser'; 'ReiserFS List'
>>Subject: Re: Was able to reproduce "cp: cannot stat file.x: Input/output
>>error"
>>
>>On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:06:24PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote:
>>
>>>I have been running benchmarks with SYNC=off, as the mongo page
>>>recommends against doing so. In configs where SYNC=ON we would
>>>omit the syncs/waits, yes?
>>
>>not sure. metadata need to be synched still.
>>
>>Alex.
> 
> 
> Saw following recently on LKML re. ext3. Does r4 O_SYNC not sync metadata?
> 

It does. Well, it should.

>  
>>>From Theodore Ts'o
> Subject Re: ext3 and SPEC SFS Run rules. 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>ext3 should be fully syncing data and metadata for both fsync()
>>>and O_SYNC writes in all three journalling modes.  
>>>If not, that's a big bug.
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
>