Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:42:56 +0100 | Subject | Re: imapd and synchronous writes |
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On 15 Mar 96 at 10:40, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What other option do we application developers have? Until Linux came > > along, directory updates had always been committed before the call > > returned. There are no facilities provided to applications to let > > them specify that a directory update needs to be committed to disk. > > Not true. If you have any modern disk controller that re-orders writes > from its internal cache then you potentially lose. There are file systems > other than the Linux one that do async writes and will have the same > properties.
With the difference that a crashing kernel does not affect the writes to complete... Despite of that you can sometimes change that behaviour even with software (EIDE maybe excepted, I don't know)
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