XFS: the filesystem of the future? [LWN.net]

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

Posted Mar 6, 2012 12:55 UTC (Tue) by XTF (guest, #83255)
In reply to: XFS: the filesystem of the future? by nybble41
Parent article: XFS: the filesystem of the future?

> In that case, why did you say that on-disk inodes do not fit within one physical sector?

You're right, inodes typically do fit in a sector.
What I wanted to say is that a meta-data transaction usually involves multiple parts / sectors. Providing consistency guarantees after a crash is hard without a journal.

> unless O_ATOMIC is exclusive, of course.

Having a reader and a writer or multiple writers at the same time is always problematic.

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