On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Since the introduction of ext4, some apps/users have had issues with > file corruption after a system crash. It's not a bug in the FS AFAIK > and it's not exclusive to ext4. > Writing a temp file, fsync, rename is often proposed. However, the > durable aspect of fsync isn't always required and this way has other > issues. > What is the recommended way for atomic non-durable (complete) file writes? > > I'm also wondering why FSs commit after open/truncate but before > write/close. AFAIK this isn't necessary and thus suboptimal. Somebody? Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
