Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 03 Aug 2001 03:10:35 +0100

At 02:54 03/08/2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>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.

Me neither. With regards to the parallel discussion on SUS compliance it is
probably a good idea to have such a thing in some form anyway (although if
I understood the discussion correctly, we really want this to happen by
default, not just when some flag is set but then again I never read the
standards...).

Best regards,

Anton

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