Question about Cyrus, ext3, and Linux kernel 2.4.18 bug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
> All the Linux journalling filesystems implement softupdates-like semantics 
> and do not require an fsync() on a directory to force filenames to disk. 
> There are various reasons why doing so is unreasonable, which is why MTAs 
> and Cyrus refuse to do so.
> 
> I can't think of any sane reason why ext3 authors would want to weaken the 
> semantics they export to applications now.

Nor do I. And even if they did, which I doubt, and survive the ensuring
flamewar from hell, SGI won't do that to their mature XFS filesystem. That
one won't be changing the specs anytime soon...

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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  Henrique Holschuh