Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggests delaying reiserfs integration)

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:00:57 +0100


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:43:24PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> Does postgresql on linux depend on O_SYNC, which we don't support?
>
> Perhaps we need to return a failure if O_SYNC is used.

Definitely. A warning printk and an ENOSYS or EINVAL error return
would be appropriate. Anything else will lead to silent data
corruption.

--Stephen

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