>Of course. If you want data to hit the disk, you have to use fsync. This
>does work with reiserfs and will ensure that the data hits the disk. If
>you don't do this then bad things might happen.
This is probably a naive question, but this thread has already proved
me wrong on one naive assumptio
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 03:26:27 +0200
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )>
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:00:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> extending a file, the metadata is written -last-, e.g., file blocks
> are allocated, file data is written, and -then- met
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:00:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> extending a file, the metadata is written -last-, e.g., file blocks
> are allocated, file data is written, and -then- metadata is written.
this is almost impossible to achieve with existing hardware (witness the
many discussions
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:52:29 +0200
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )>
Thanks for your response! Bear with me, though, because I'm asking
a design question below that relates to this.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:44:59AM -0400, Lenny Foner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[As before, please make sure you CC me on replies or I won't see them. Tnx!]
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:28:54 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Stock reiserfs only provides meta-
