From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 30 16:04:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25272 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25207; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18235; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:04:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018125; Tue Jun 30 16:04:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25319; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:04:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806302304.QAA25319@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Unsupport calls To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:04:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mkn@emailbox.hdtv.lucent.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806302234.PAA29470@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jun 30, 98 03:34:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The FreeBSD equivalent is fsync(), since you have no choice on the > > metadata, since FreeBSD obeys the POSIX semantics (which require > > metadata updates to occur). > > You're a bit out of date. Not really. The distinction drawn between user data and metadata is useless in the face of a technology like soft updates. This is just another case of POSIX adding insult to injury, to no real benefit for anyone. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message