From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard B. Johnson" Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Trond Myklebust , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17S101-0002m6-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:50:13 -0700 To: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > That is what it's supposed to do with files. The attached code clearly > > shows that it doesn't work with directories. The fsync() instantly > > returns, even though there is buffered data still to be written. > > Your understanding or code is wrong. Its hard to tell which. > > fsync on the directory syncs the directory metadata not the file metadata > Well the original complaint was that Linux NFS didn't allow a directory to be fsync()ed. I showed that POSIX.4 doesn't provide for fsync()ing directories, only files, that you have to fsync() individual files, not the directories that contain them. Others said that fsync()ing individual files was not necessary, that you only have to fsync() the directory. I explained that you have to cheat to even get a fd that can be used to fsync() a directory. Then I showed that fsync()ing a directory in this manner doesn't work so, we are actually in violent agreement. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Windows-2000/Professional isn't. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs