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ext4 and data loss

ext4 and data loss

Posted Mar 15, 2009 6:01 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: ext4 and data loss by quotemstr
Parent article: ext4 and data loss

> Creating a write barrier on rename is an elegant way to do that.

Except that rename(s), as specified, never actually guarantees that.


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ext4 and data loss

Posted Mar 15, 2009 6:04 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

That should have been rename(2), of course.

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