Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:58:58 -0300 (BRST)


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:

> So, what would help the common MTA?

Not relying on non-supported semantics to save your ass.

Rename() is atomic in the sense that you either see the
old name or the new name, but I don't know of systems
which guarantee atomicity across a system crash.

In fact, knowing how hard disks work mechanically, only
journaling filesystems could have an extention to make
this work. Ie. this is NOT something you can rely on ;)

regards,

Rik

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