Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:34:14PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> fsync(int fd)
> {
> dentry = fdget(fd);
> do_fsync(dentry);
> for (;;) {
> tmp = dentry;
> dentry = dentry->d_parent;
> if (dentry == tmp)
> break;
> do_fdatasync(dentry);
> }
> }
>
> I really like this idea. Can people please try out the attached patch?
Ow. You just crippled ext3.
I don't think an ext2 problem (which I don't think is a problem
at all) should be "fixed" at the VFS layer when other filesystems
are perfectly happy without it, no?
This whole thread, talking about "linux this" and "linux that"
is off-base. It's ext2 we're talking about. This MTA requirement
is a highly unusual and specialised thing - I don't see why the
general-purpose ext2 should bear the burden of supporting it when
other filesystems such as reiserfs (I think?) and ext3 support it
naturally and better than ext2 ever will.
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