On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:52:01AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
> metadata (as I said above), or have your program sync the directory of a file
> after syncing the file. Bruce Guenter's SRPM of qmail includes a patch
> which does the directory sync, so you don't have to mount the filesystem
> with synchronous metadata for safety.
That's actually not a patch. It's a small object file that replaces the
libc open, link, rename, and unlink routines. The replacement routines
call the syscall as usual, but after making the call do a fsync on the
directory leading up to the given filename.
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
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