From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:28:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:28:39 -0500 Received: from 205-158-62-139.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.139]:60600 "HELO spf1.us.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:28:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20030212213653.94090.qmail@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Vijayan Prabhakaran" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:36:53 -0500 Subject: Ordering in FAT filesystem X-Originating-Ip: 128.105.167.48 X-Originating-Server: ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm working on linux FAT filesystem. I'm trying to find the order in which the FAT blocks and the data blocks are written into the disk. At the level of device driver, I'm seeing that the FAT blocks are written always before the corresponding data blocks. Is this just a coincidence or is the ordering between FAT and data blocks enforced ? The workload I ran creates a 10MB file by writing progressively 1 MB chunks at random intervals and then truncates the file. Help appreciated. Vijayan -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup