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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 16, 2009 10:37 UTC (Mon) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by endecotp
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> Come on Ted, what exactly do you want us to write to be portably safe?

Ted seems to have answered this in his second blog post: YES you DO need to fsync the directory if you want to be certain that the metadata has been saved.


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