On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:02:07PM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote: > Dropping a tree can be lengthy. It's not good to let sync wait for hours. > For most linux FS, 'sync' just force an transaction/journal commit. I don't > think they wait for large operations that can span multiple transactions to > complete. What happens to the consistency of the filesystem if a crash happens during this process? -- Bruce Guenter http://untroubled.org/