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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


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