From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
colin@colino.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:49:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124064930.GE2460@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041123224002.54a0e1e6.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:40:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, EXT2 doesn't update all metadata synchronously in sync-mode.
>
> It does.
>
> I'm actually surprised to discover that [v]fat doesn't support `-o sync'.
> It's probably a quite practical way of handling these various hotpluggable
> gadgets and would be a popular addition.
>
> It does have the downside that it'll teach our users bad practices....
Dunno. Right now they'll still probably have an occassional kernel
crash to contend with from device disappearing from under an fs, but
at least they won't have lost all the photos on their camera...
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 18:49 [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag Colin Leroy
2004-11-18 18:51 ` [PATCH] let vfat " Colin Leroy
2004-11-23 19:32 ` [PATCH] let fat " Colin Leroy
2004-11-23 20:24 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 3:20 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-24 5:00 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 5:35 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-24 6:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-24 6:49 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-11-24 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-24 13:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 5:41 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-11-24 7:30 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 3:17 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-24 7:34 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 7:50 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-24 8:40 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 14:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 14:25 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 15:02 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-24 18:10 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-24 20:28 ` Colin Leroy
[not found] ` <87k6saunwl.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
2004-11-25 12:47 ` Colin Leroy
[not found] ` <87act6ulc5.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
2004-11-25 13:11 ` Colin Leroy
2004-12-29 19:33 ` Robert Hardy
2004-12-30 3:02 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
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