Hi Ted, On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 8:30 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > When you open "foo", the restulting file descriptor is not associated > with the symlink. The resulting file descriptor is the exact same > thing you would get if you had instead called: > > fd = open("/tmp/bar/quux", O_CREAT|O_RDWR); > > Hence, when you call > > fsync(fd); > > What you are calling fsync on is not the _symlink_, but the inode > which is named by /tmp/bar/quux.
Thank you! This was the crucial misunderstanding on our part. The behavior makes a lot more sense now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel