On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What if you use a soft link? wouldn't that solve all of your problems? > > - do your fsync/fdatasync of choice in a *backend thread* then at the return > - point set to the new link, fsync the link it's very small, therefore fast. > - Then delete the old source file. > > You need a simple "name-version" schema and the "name" is kept soft linked. > (You might even skip the last step above and implement an undo stack, some > Âbackground management caps on history size) > >>> >>>> and this way has other >>>> issues, like losing file meta-data. >>> > > With soft links this is persevered? > > Same system can be used with lots of files. where the final switch is > the set of a single soft-link say to a folder of related files. Are you proposing to turn every single file into a symlink? How would that solve the meta-data issue? 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
