From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ager0o$jjo$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020709095544.27285A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
>>>>> " " == Richard B Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We
> have opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a
> file descriptor. If the directory was properly opened, one
> would never attempt to fsync() it.
fsync() is supported on directories on local filesystems as a way of
ensuring that changes (due to file creation etc) are committed to
disk. Where is the POSIX violation in that?
There is no reason why NFS, which ensures this anyway, should
not adhere to this convention.
Cheers,
Trond
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 13:49 [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 14:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 15:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 17:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 17:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 18:58 ` [NFS] " Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-09 18:58 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-09 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:39 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories " David Dillow
2002-07-09 19:59 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories " Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-15 7:52 ` Sean Hunter
2002-07-15 12:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-15 13:35 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715133507.GF32155@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 14:49 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 15:18 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715151833.GA22828@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 16:10 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 18:16 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715181650.GA20665@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 18:56 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 20:50 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:38 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:29 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories " Sandy Harris
2002-07-15 20:17 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories " Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-16 1:40 ` jw schultz
2002-07-15 15:20 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-15 15:35 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:14 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-15 12:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 15:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:08 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2002-07-10 6:33 ` Alex Riesen
2002-07-10 11:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-11 10:52 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-11 11:26 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] <E17SjDh-00067R-00@usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
2002-07-11 19:14 ` Rex Dieter
2002-07-11 20:05 ` Tom McNeal
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-09 13:49 Trond Myklebust
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