Hi! > > I don't think we can do that. I suspect rename looks like: > > > > write directory entry in source > > A) (uninterruptible wait for write) > > write directory entry in destination > > (uninterruptible wait for write) > > write something else > > > > If we freeze some task in place "A)", we'll write to the disk when the > > directory write is finished :-(. > > Renaming is a single syscall, so won't the process get frozen when the syscall > finishes? It would be frozen when syscall finishes. But if we freeze it at A) point, we have a problem. > Perhaps you've just found more logic for keeping the sys_sync there? No, I don't think so. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
