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From: michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>
To: Hifumi Hisashi <hifumi.hisashi@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiser@namesys.com, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com,
	reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix problems related to journaling in Reiserfs
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:42:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b14e81f005083106423c6adc4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.20.2.20050831191551.03fdbac0@129.60.53.12>

On 8/31/05, Hifumi Hisashi <hifumi.hisashi@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>    I noticed that the Reiserfs has some problems related to meta-data journaling.
>    I suppose that transactions regarding meta-data should be written to a
> disk every meta-data change (for example, i_size is increased) in ordered-mode while
> synchronous writing is performed. 

Surely we don't want this.  Look at the papers on Namesys's websites,
about the atomicaty and the banking example.  But that's just my
personal opinion.  Besides, I believe it's more likely that usually
the power gets lost than the SCSI or IDE cable gets disconnected,
AFAIK...

-- 
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
 - No man is an island, and no man is unable.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 12:39 [PATCH] fix problems related to journaling in Reiserfs Hifumi Hisashi
2005-08-31 13:42 ` michael chang [this message]
2005-09-01  0:02   ` Hifumi Hisashi
2005-09-01  0:37     ` michael chang
2005-09-01  3:30       ` Hans Reiser
2005-09-01  3:35 ` Hans Reiser
2005-09-02  2:03   ` Chris Mason
2005-10-04  8:47     ` Hifumi Hisashi
2005-10-04 10:40       ` Hans Reiser

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