From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au>,
tytso@valinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:41:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010521184150.A24682@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010512115034.A6245285B9@wawura.off.connect.com.au> <E14ya9b-0004Bc-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14ya9b-0004Bc-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:13:55PM +0100
Hi,
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:13:55PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> fsync guarantees the inode data is up to date, fdatasync just the data.
fdatasync guarantees "important" inode data too. The only thing that
fdatasync is allowed to skip is the timestamps.
--Stephen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-21 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-12 11:50 Ext2, fsync() and MTA's? Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 14:53 ` Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 15:20 ` Theodore Tso
2001-05-21 17:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-21 22:04 ` Theodore Tso
2001-05-22 15:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-22 16:54 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-24 1:48 ` Marco d'Itri
2001-05-21 17:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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