Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Richard A Nelson
2001-07-26T18:33:11Z

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In article <E15PnTJ-0003z0-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Go tell your opinion to those people that refuse to wrap their
> >> rename/link calls with open()/fsync() calls to the respective parents,
> >> particularly Daniel J. Bernstein, Wietse Z. Venema, among others. I
> >> don't possibly know all MTAs.

[snip]
> Also, I think he eventually agreed on the logic of fsync() on the
> directory, and we even had a bug report (quickly fixed) for reiserfs
> because it got confused by it.

In looking at the synchronous directory options, I'm unsure as to
the 'real' status wrt fsync() on a directory:
1) Does fsync() of a directory work on most/all current FS?
2) Does it work on 2.2.x as well as 2.4.x?
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