From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:49:09 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:60304 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:48:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:41:50 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrew McNamara , tytso@valinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie Subject: Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's? Message-ID: <20010521184150.A24682@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010512115034.A6245285B9@wawura.off.connect.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:13:55PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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