Hi, On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:50, Ben Escoto wrote: > I see. So if I want to require that a file gets renamed before > another file gets deleted, after the rename I would fsync() the file? It depends. :-) ext3 provides stronger ordering guarantees than some other Linux filesystems. On ext3, a fsync of the renamed file would be sufficient. On ext2, you'd need to fsync the parent directory in order to guarantee that the directory name was consistent. > If the file is moving from one directory to another I would also have > to fsync() the destination (?) directory? On ext2, yes. (Or you could set the directory to be synchronous, with chattr.) On ext3, the fsync will guarantee the entire rename is on disk. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
