Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 10:33:24 +0100 (MET) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, hasty@star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad Message-ID: <9503230933.AA06743@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199503230609.WAA00166@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 22, 95 10:09:01 pm
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> It's the metadata I/O that we're talking about. ...and yes, the process > will definately see it if the operation involves lots of file creates. It is > inherently unsafe to do metadata I/O asynchronously, which is why the manual > page says: Yeah, we all know that but ext2fs is doing it for ages now and they don't have that much more problem with it... It would be great if it worked (for the news spool for example). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #1: Mon Mar 6 23:55:18 MET 1995
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