Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:10:51 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FAT: Support synchronous update |
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote: > > Hi, > > These patches adds the `-o sync' and `-o dirsync' supports to fatfs. > If user specified that option, the fatfs does traditional ordered > updates by using synchronous writes. If compared to before, these > patches will show a improvement of robustness I think. > > `-o sync' - writes all buffers out before returning from syscall. > `-o dirsync' - writes the directory's metadata, and unreferencing > operations of data block. > > remaining to be done > fat_generic_ioctl(), fat_notify_change(), > ATTR_ARCH of fat_xxx_write[v], > and probably, filling hole in cont_prepare_write(), > > NOTE: Since fatfs doesn't have link-count, unfortunately ->rename() is > not safe order at all. It may make the shared blocks, but user > shouldn't lose the data by ->rename(). > > Please apply. > > > If you test this, please use attached dosfstools. This is fixing > several bugs of dosfstools. And "2/29" patch from hpa adds new ioctl, > the attached archive is also including the commands for testing it. > -- > OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> > >
OK. This email was way too big for linux-kernel, so nobody saw it.
I put the modified fatfsprogs at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/fatfsprogs.tar.bz2 and updated the changlog to mention that.
Is there an official place where people should go to download the modified fatfsprogs?
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