Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Do ext2, jfs and reiserfs respect mount -o sync/dirsync option?

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-03-04T01:44:06, Junfeng Yang <yjf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > That would be a bug.  Please send the e2fsck output.
> 
> Here is the trace
> 
> 1. file system is made with sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F -b 1024 /dev/hda9 60
> and  mounted with -o sync,dirsync
> 
> 1.  operations FiSC did:
> 
> creat(/mnt/sbd0/0001)
> write(/mnt/sbd0/0001)
> rename(/mnt/sbd0/0001, /mnt/sbd0/0002)
> mkdir(/mnt/sbd0/0003)
> 
> 2.  FiSC "crashed" the test machine  after mkdir returns.  Crashed
> disk image can be downloaded at: http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug2/crash.img.bz2

I've run into similar issues. For example, a "touch foo" also isn't
synchronous with -o sync, but stays entirely in the cache. Andrea tells
me this is expected behaviour, so I've given up on this one...


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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High Availability & Clustering
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