Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:00:57 +0200 | From | Olaf Dabrunz <> | Subject | Re: Is ReiserFS really a journaling file system, or is it really just a synchronous-metadata file system like BSD FFS? |
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:11:14AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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(). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What does it mean? Copy the file? rename()?
Olaf Dabrunz
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