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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: "Frank A. Kingswood" <frank@kingswood-consulting.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atomically swap two files
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:47:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEF9E68.9080200@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <icmfu2$nga$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 25/11/10 20:11, Frank A. Kingswood wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to swap two files in an atomic way, so that after the
> syscall either the two files have exchanged names or neither has been
> modified?
> 
> I suspect that btrfs could do it, but I'm wondering about ext3/4.

I don't think there is anything equivalent to exchangedata() on Linux
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/exchangedata.2.html

I've written some notes on atomically replacing
file contents with standard tools here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html

cheers,
Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-25 20:11 atomically swap two files Frank A. Kingswood
2010-11-26 11:47 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2010-11-26 14:19   ` Dave Chinner

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