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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Exactly what is wrong with doing fsync() on the
> directory ?

It's non-portable and a kludge.

> Why do you want us to turn link() and rename()
> into link_slowly() and rename_slowly() ?

Opening up the directory requires lots of inode lookups which are
unnecessary.

> Why can't you use a simple wrapper function to
> do this for you ?

Because it's more inefficient than necessary and it bloats the
application.

-- 
Matthias Andree