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Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

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Subject: Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:44:18 +1000
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Hi Ethan,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:56:07PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> I believe this is the same behavior as ext2, newer versions of ext2
> also had a different sync flag specifically for directories to ensure
> directory updates are synchronous, this one is not yet supported by XFS
> (at least that I am aware).  I think this flag is 2.6 only as well.

I added support for the mount option (dirsync), but I never got
around to making it an inode flag too.. (got a patch for me? :)

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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