Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS? | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:11:14 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Okay, I do have a question. There are a *number* of applications in > which it is far better to lose a file than having a file which looks > correct but contains bad data. kernel.org is such as application. > What would be the proper kind of filesystem to run?
You need higher level transactions for that. Download to new name, fsync, rename().
Alan
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