Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:35:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:

> asynchronous rename/link/unlink/symlink, however a directory fsync() is
> believed to be rather expensive.

How the fuck it's expensive? It does _exactly_ the same as file fsync() -
literally the same code. It doesn't write blocks that don't belong to
directory. It doesn't write blocks that are clean. IOW, it does the
minimal work possible.

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