Re: Lost file-system story

["Matt W. Benjamin" <matt%linuxbox.com@localhost>]

Hi,

Why would sync not be effective under MNT_ASYNC?  Use of sync is not required 
to lead to consistency expect with respect to an arbitrary point in time, but I 
don't think anyone ever believed otherwise.  However, there should be no 
question of metadata never being written out if sync was run?

Matt

----- "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:

> 
> (I am waffling though on whether I think sync(2) should have any
> beneficial affect on the consistency of MNT_ASYNC-mounted
> filesytems.)
> 

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