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