atomic file operations

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Mar 24 17:00:59 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:53 +0300, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> then you have the guarantee that you either have written all or 
> nowthing. JFFS2 does guarantee that due to its implementation.

JFFS2 might happen to _do_ that due to its implementation, but it's not
a guarantee. POSIX doesn't require that writes are atomic w.r.t power
failure.

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dwmw2





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