On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think that various developers have answered this for you several times. Not really, unfortunately. Haven't seen a single link to code that shows how to do it properly. Temp file, fsync, rename is often mentioned but that skips the preserving meta-data part and this part, which you also skipped: One use case would be updating a file in a safe way when you have write access to that file but not to anything else. > As a suggestion, if you are not a kernel developer, show us specifically a > bit of application code that demonstrates something that you want to have > work differently. I will. > Test it with power failure (buy an external e-sata or USB disk and pull > power while running your app). The current code? I think I'll use a VM instead of an external disk. ;) Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
