Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:32:15 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: weird ext2 sync behaviour |
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Hi,
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:25:45 +0000 (GMT), "imel..." <imel96@puspa.cs.ui.ac.id> said:
> so every new file has 'S' bit set, which is not what i > want. i think i understand why the behaviour is but it's > not right from "want to have metadata straight" pov.
The +S bit only applies to directory updates. If a directory has the +S bit set then name updates in that directory are all synchronous. The flag is inherited by subdirs. The fact that regular files inherit it too doesn't matter: you still need to open(O_SYNC) explicitly to get synchronous metadata updates for regular files.
--Stephen
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