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From: "Andreas T.Auer" <andreas.t.auer_lkml_73537@ursus.ath.cx>
To: Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:22:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CF761E.3030500@ursus.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CF7297.4020201@nokia.com>



On 29.03.2009 15:07 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> Does not fsync. If someone wants to make sure one of the files is on
>> the disk, he should use replace(). [On non-linux systems, replace()
>> should be implemented as fsync/rename in libc or something.]
>
As a user I will avoid using any fs, which requires the tons of
applications to be changed for a reasonable amount of data safety.
> I would be happy with these rules. But the fact is, application
> people just refuse to add fsync before rename.
Because it slows down the performance.
> They say that the
> FS has to do this. 
They say that FS should not write metadata for non-existing data and
even overwrite "clean" metadata with "dirty" metadata. It is up to the
fs to decide, whether fsync is needed to achieve this.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-29 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-27 12:48 EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-28  1:22 ` Kyungmin Park
2009-03-29 12:31   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 12:54     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 12:26 ` replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS) Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 12:42   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 12:50     ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:00       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:02         ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:07           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:22             ` Andreas T.Auer [this message]
2009-03-29 13:55               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 13:40             ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:57               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-29 14:00                 ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-30 17:19       ` Ric Wheeler
2009-03-30 22:11         ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-29 13:01     ` Andreas T.Auer
2009-03-29 13:06       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-30 15:58   ` Diego Calleja
2009-04-03  0:09 ` EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS Christian Kujau
2009-04-03  0:24   ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  0:28     ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  0:38       ` Christian Kujau
2009-04-03  0:54         ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  0:54         ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  0:59           ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  1:55       ` David Rees
2009-04-03  2:05         ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  2:19           ` David Rees
2009-04-03  2:28             ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  2:58               ` David Rees
2009-04-03  3:13                 ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  3:14                   ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  5:02                 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-03  5:15                   ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  6:30                     ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-03 18:53                       ` Chris Adams
2009-04-03 18:05                   ` David Rees
2009-04-09 20:17                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-03  2:26         ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  2:05   ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-03  2:45     ` Christian Kujau
2009-04-03  2:49       ` Trenton D. Adams
2009-04-03  6:53   ` Artem Bityutskiy
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2009-03-31 21:27       ` replace() system call needed (was Re: EXT4-ish "fixes" in UBIFS) Bodo Eggert
2009-04-01  0:06         ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-01 20:52           ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-01 22:58             ` Bodo Eggert
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