On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Marius Vollmer <marius.voll...@nokia.com> wrote: > And in the big picture, all we need is some guarantee that renames are > comitted in order, and after the content of the file that is being > renamed. I have the impression that all reasonable filesystems give > that guarantee now, no?
No, they took shortcuts in the implementation and commit the rename before the source file. > Hmm, right. We could keep a list of all files that need fsyncing, and > then fsync them all just before writing the checkpoint. Instead of fsync you might want to use the async Linux specific sync options. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinW=kxn2trssg+b327prv5m66-zpdxc0s10l...@mail.gmail.com
