From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:46:10 -0800 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Fsync parent directories In-Reply-To: <20180219232201.18355-1-agruenba@redhat.com> References: <20180219232201.18355-1-agruenba@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20180220194610.GA4008@infradead.org> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:22:01AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > When fsyncing a new file, also fsync the directory the files is in, > recursively. This is how Linux filesystems should behave nowadays, > even if not mandated by POSIX. I think that is bullshit. Maybe it is what google wants for ext4 non-journal mode which no one else uses anyway. but it certainly is anything but normal Linux semantics.