On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 02:24:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2007 07:27, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Currently only > > metadata is more or less in sync with the contents of /dev/hda1. > > It either is or it isn't, right? And it is, isn't it? (at least > for the common filesystems).
It is not true for XFS - it's metadata is not in sync with /dev/<block> at all as all the cached metadata is kept in a different address space to the raw block device. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/