Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:15:46 +0200


On Sun, 05 Aug 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> Anyhow, if you read recent comments it looks like thre are filesystems
> which will be badly affected by placing this logic into the VFS
> (eg. Coda). It may well be this should become a fs-specific thing
> (which sucks a little, because it makes the suggestion of tracking
> link/unlink directories ugly) and for some filesystems such as

Why does it? Each file-system is self-contained with respect to hard
links. You cannot have link cross file system boundaries.

Common code can be placed into a library. (Probably 2.5 stuff though.)

-- 
Matthias Andree
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