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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: precise characterization of ext3 atomicity
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:16:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309042216.04121.phillips@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030904085537.78c251b3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thursday 04 September 2003 17:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> > Is it correct to say of ext3 that it guarantees and only guarantees
> > atomicity of writes that do not cross page boundaries?
>
> Yes.

Is that just happenstance, or does Posix or similar mandate it?

Regards,

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-04 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-04 14:20 precise characterization of ext3 atomicity Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 15:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-04 15:59   ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 16:12     ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-04 16:25       ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 18:15         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 16:05           ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-04 18:37           ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 19:12             ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 21:03               ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 19:28             ` Andreas Dilger
2003-09-04 21:32               ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 22:03                 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-09-05 13:47                   ` Chris Mason
2003-09-09 13:09                 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-09 19:21                   ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-09-09 19:43                     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 20:16   ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2003-09-04 20:10     ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-04 21:08       ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04 21:39         ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-04 21:59           ` Daniel Phillips

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