Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:06:17 -0400

Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> said:
> On Friday 03 August 2001 01:55, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > To summarize: basically you want the directory to be synced inside
> > the fsync() of the filedescriptor (with the advantage of being able
> > to optimize the directory sync to be a partial directory sync), while
> > others want you to explicitly sync the directory filedescriptor
> > afterwards.

> He wants to be able to set a bit on the directory that specifies such
> behaviour for all files in the directory. I don't see what's wrong
> with that.

That there isn't THE directory in which the file resides. There might be
several, and setting the bit on one of them at random and expect it to work
is a _lot_ of work. For no real use.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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