Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Rik van Riel
2001-08-02T09:57:06Z

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > Well, if there's not a single dirent, you cannot retrieve the data,
>
> Of course you can, you can pass and fd for an unliked file
> everywhere using AF_LOCAL descriptor passing.

But this assumes the system doesn't crash, while
fsync() seems meant more as a protection against
the system going down unexpectedly ...

Rik
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