Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:29:08 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <3A805E94.8FF4F103@monzoon.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102061822240.1535-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > But please answer me one question: Is the link() call atomically > > in FFS/UFS w or w/o softupdates? Meaning when the call returns > > the meta- data is written to stable storage like with fsync()? > > Since when does `atomic' equal `synchronous' ? Because otherwise it would not be atomically, would it? -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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