On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:02:07PM +0800, Yan, Zheng  wrote:
> Dropping a tree can be lengthy. It's not good to let sync wait for hours.
> For most linux FS, 'sync' just force an transaction/journal commit. I don't
> think they wait for large operations that can span multiple transactions to
> complete.

What happens to the consistency of the filesystem if a crash happens
during this process?

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Bruce Guenter <br...@untroubled.org>                http://untroubled.org/

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