Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

From: James Antill (james@and.org)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 21:09:59 EST

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"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

[snip sendmail/cyrus/qmail/postfix]

Just in case anyone cares here's what exim does (AFAICS)...

int fd1 = open(f1);
write(fd1);
fsync(fd1);

int fd2 = open(tmp);
write(fd2);
fsync(fd2);
rename(tmp, f2); // Good at this point.

So that seems to rely on all dir operations being sync.

Ps. I did a patch for exim to do the dir sync though...

http://www.and.org/exim-3.31-dirfsync.patch

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