Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:43:37AM -0600,
  David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> True; but if you're modifying existing files, the directory data to
> locate it is already safely on disk; only the timestamp might be
> wrong.  This isn't the qmail situation, but it's an important real
> situation, and suggests a reason why it makes sense to to separate
> file sync and directory sync.  Maybe.  

Another situation is when dealing with several files in the same directory.
You need to fsync each file, but you only need to fsync the directory once.