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Subject: Re: Hard Link Count too small!
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> PS: async mounting only has an indirect effect on writing timestamps to
> disk anyway.  Timestamps are normally written to the diskwhen the update
> daemon syncs everything or as a side effect of writing inodes synchronously
> for reasons unrelated to timestamps.

I know this already... see my immediately previous posting.  The fsync
and O_WRITESYC cases are not failure cases for what we are considering.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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