linux-kernel - Re: Atomic non-durable file write API

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Date:	Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:03:23 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atomic non-durable file write API

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:45:23 +0100 Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@...il.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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. However, the
> > durable aspect of fsync isn't always required and this way has other
> > issues.
> > What is the recommended way for atomic non-durable (complete) file writes?
> >
> > I'm also wondering why FSs commit after open/truncate but before
> > write/close. AFAIK this isn't necessary and thus suboptimal.
> 
> Somebody?
> --

maybe try linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org or linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
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