On Apr 29, 2004 13:10 -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > If I issue the following sequence of pseudo-syscalls: > > fd = open(temp_file, O_WRONLY) > write(fd) > rename(temp_file, dest_file) > fsync(fd) > close(fd) > (where dest_file is in a different directory) > > Does ext3 order the commit such that the file write effectively happens > in the journal before the rename? That is, is there any chance that, if > a crash occurred, that the destination directory would contain a link to > an incompletely written file? If you require such ordering, put the fsync before the rename. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
