Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:07:33 +0200
On Friday 03 August 2001 04:06, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 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.
There is only one chain of directories from the fd's dentry up to the
root, that's the one to sync.
--
Daniel
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