From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:16:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:15:51 -0400 Received: from krusty.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:62985 "HELO krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:15:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:15:46 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Message-ID: <20010805141546.B13438@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9keqr6$egl$1@penguin.transmeta.com>, <9keqr6$egl$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010804100143.A17774@weta.f00f.org> <3B6B4B21.B68F4F87@zip.com.au>, <3B6B4B21.B68F4F87@zip.com.au> <20010804131904.E18108@weta.f00f.org> <3B6B53A9.A9923E21@zip.com.au> <20010804060423.I16516@emma1.emma.line.org> <20010805063003.B20111@weta.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010805063003.B20111@weta.f00f.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 05 Aug 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Anyhow, if you read recent comments it looks like thre are filesystems > which will be badly affected by placing this logic into the VFS > (eg. Coda). It may well be this should become a fs-specific thing > (which sucks a little, because it makes the suggestion of tracking > link/unlink directories ugly) and for some filesystems such as Why does it? Each file-system is self-contained with respect to hard links. You cannot have link cross file system boundaries. Common code can be placed into a library. (Probably 2.5 stuff though.) -- Matthias Andree