Re: fsync on large files

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:27:37 +1300


On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 10:23:29AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Umm.. We _never_ use "." and ".." in filesystems. Never.

Surely ".." is of some value (perhaps not now, but maybe in the
future) to e2fsck is the disk gets corrupted?

-cw

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