Re: atomic renames on freebsd w/ softupdates, was Re: djblinux?

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:45:23 -0400
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Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> This brings up the question -- does the Posixtest project's
> testsuite verify that atomic rename works?

The question, I think, is not about atomicity, but whether directory
updates are synchronous.  The only way you'd find that they weren't
synchronous is if the system crashed just after a rename() (or link(),
etc.) and the change was lost.


paul