On Thursday, September 14, 2006 05:49:05 PM -0400 Tom Keiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exactly! Doing the fsync as-soon-as-possible is simply a hack to reduce the likelihood of an inevitable possibility. There is no notion of atomic transactions in namei; namei link count updates and other metadata updates are effectively unrelated.
This is the same as with other filesystems, where the link count is maintained by the underlying filesystem and is unrelated to the fileserver metadata. At least at one time, most filesystems wrote this data synchronously, and I believe the link table syncs are an attempt to be consistent with that behavior.
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