Re: qmail on FFS with softupdates

[Jeff Hayward]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Andre Oppermann wrote:

  > I'm not sure if we're communicating. Does FFS offer the guarantee that
  > when link() succeeds, the hard link exists on the physical disk?
  
  Yes.
  
Are you certain?  My understanding (possibly wrong) is that the only
guarantee is that if you do link() then unlink(), that the unlink will not
be committed to disk before the link.  Soft updates is all about letting
the link() be asyncronous and still meet the guarantee.

-- Jeff Hayward