Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> But please answer me one question: Is the link() call atomically
> in FFS/UFS w or w/o softupdates? Meaning when the call returns
> the meta- data is written to stable storage like with fsync()?

Since when does `atomic' equal `synchronous' ?

regards,

Rik
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