Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management
Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management
Posted Mar 16, 2009 4:07 UTC (Mon) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management by drag
Parent article: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management
Because write is not a write to disk, and rename is not a rename to disk. They do occur in order in a perceptual way.
That they do not occur in order on disk is what you would want for the usual case.
This is a situation where the apis should be enhanced so that the application can tell the system what it needs.
