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Message-ID: <20101228025937.GE10149@thunk.org> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:59:37 -0500 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Atomic file data replace API On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:51:54PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Since the introduction of ext4, some apps/users have had issues with > file corruption after a system crash. It's not a bug in the FS AFAIK > and it's not exclusive to ext4. > Writing a temp file, fsync, rename is often proposed. > But how does one preserve meta-data, including file owner? What's the use case where preserving file ownership matters? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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