[PATCH] Add man page for vfs_syncops
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Fri Aug 9 03:12:46 MDT 2013
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:08:03AM +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> + Some filesystems (even some journaled filesystems) require that a
> + fsync() be performed on many meta data operations to ensure that the
> + operation is guaranteed to remain in the filesystem after a power
> + failure. This is particularly important for some cluster filesystems
> + which are participating in a node failover system with clustered
> + Samba. On those filesystems the <command>vfs_syncops</command> VFS module
> + provides a way to perform those operations safely.
I don't know a single Unix filesystems from the last 40 years where this
is not true. Why isn't this the default behaviour in Samba instead of
having it in a module that very few people are going to use?
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