What about other filesystems?

Posted Jul 23, 2021 13:10 UTC (Fri) by Defenestrator (guest, #153400)
In reply to: What about other filesystems? by matthias
Parent article: Fast commits for ext4

> And I think it is guaranteed that a rename only is done after the renamed file has hit the disk.

This is often true in practice (in particular, in ext3 and in ext4 outside of early versions), but not always explicitly guaranteed. See the auto_da_alloc option added to ext4 for more info and background.