From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael chang Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix problems related to journaling in Reiserfs Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:42:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6.0.0.20.2.20050831191551.03fdbac0@129.60.53.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: reiser@namesys.com, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.194]:34613 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964806AbVHaNmp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:42:45 -0400 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so952132wxd for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:42:41 -0700 (PDT) To: Hifumi Hisashi In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.20.2.20050831191551.03fdbac0@129.60.53.12> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 8/31/05, Hifumi Hisashi 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.