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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic  change patch)
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:07:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6C6423.2BFA3CFA@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01080315090600.01827@starship> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108031400590.3272-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <9keqr6$egl$1@penguin.transmeta.com>, <9keqr6$egl$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010804100143.A17774@weta.f00f.org> <3B6B4B21.B68F4F87@zip.com.au>, <3B6B4B21.B68F4F87@zip.com.au> <20010804131904.E18108@weta.f00f.org> <3B6B53A9.A9923E21@zip.com.au>, <3B6B53A9.A9923E21@zip.com.au> <20010804060423.I16516@emma1.emma.line.org>

Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> aren't we already at the point that ext3 fsync() flushes
> the corresponding dirents?

_any_ synchronous operation on ext3 has flushed _everything_
by the time it returns to the caller.  Every last little bit
is on disk.

This applies to fsync() against any file/dir, write() on an
O_SYNC file, any metadata operation or write() against a `chattr +S'
object, any metadata operation or write() against a `mount -o sync'
filesystem and msync().

The only exception is pageout of mmap'ed files - you'll need to
run msync() to guarantee that these are crashproofed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-04 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0108030507330F.00440@starship>
     [not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108022312211.1494-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-03 13:09   ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 14:43     ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-03 17:49     ` Mike Castle
2001-08-04  3:23       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 18:08     ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 18:26       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 18:53         ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 20:50           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04  3:43           ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 18:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-03 22:01         ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:33           ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:16             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:23               ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04  3:53                 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04  5:48                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 22:45           ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:09             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:15               ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:20                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:25                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:35                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:41                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:46                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:53                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04  7:45                             ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchange patch) Hans Reiser
2001-08-04 18:31                               ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05  1:47                                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-08 17:22                                   ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchangepatch) Hans Reiser
2001-08-03 23:42                       ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Alan Cox
2001-08-03 23:44                         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04  1:08           ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04  1:19             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04  1:45               ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04  4:04                 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 18:30                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 12:15                     ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-05 12:32                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 13:02                         ` Matti Aarnio
2001-08-04 21:07                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-08-04 21:07               ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-05  7:25                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-09 13:25                 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 17:35           ` Jan Harkes
2001-08-04 18:18             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:02           ` Chris Mason
2001-08-06 20:48             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:29         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-03 23:06           ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:23           ` looking for resources for designing loopback filesystem dave-mlist
2001-08-06 16:11             ` Ville Herva
2001-08-03 18:36   ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 19:16     ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04  3:40       ` fdatasync(2) is also there (was: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread) Matthias Andree
2001-08-05  0:28         ` Mike Castle

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