Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:53:34 +0100 (IST)


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:

> The other thing is, that Linux is the only known system that does
> asynchronous rename/link/unlink/symlink -- people have claimed it might
> not be the only one, but failed to name systems.
>
> So we need to assume that Linux is the only system that does
> asynchronous rename/link/unlink/symlink, however a directory fsync() is
> believed to be rather expensive.

if the prime directive of MTAs is data integrity paranoia, then
surely the best assumption for an MTA to make is that
rename/link/unlink/symlink /are/ asynchronous in the general case?

regards,

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