On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:33:40PM -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote: > > Hi, > > FiSC (our file system checker) emits several warnings on ext2, jfs and > reiserfs, complaining that diretories or files are lost while FiSC > believes they should already be persistent on disk. (ext3 behaves > correctly.) > > All warnings boil down to a single cause: when these file systems are > mounted -o sync or dirsync, dirty blocks are still written out > asynchronously. It appears to me that these mount options don't have any > effect on these file systems. Is this the intended behavior?
I don't believe so. The sync option should definitionally make calls to fsync for integrity redundant. This probably got broken ages ago for ext2 in one of the many buffer/page cache refactorings. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/
