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Where the the correctness go?

Where the the correctness go?

Posted Mar 16, 2009 3:13 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Where the the correctness go? by nix
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

There's an easy way to avoid that problem.

link the name to name~
rename the name.new to name

Yes, explicit transaction support in the filesystem would be great, though hammering out the api will probably be hairy.


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