On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:52:55PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Thinking of this, how should this actually happen, in practice? Config files 
> are written first to a temporary file and this file gets renamed to the 
> original name, atomically replacing the old file. How exactly should it 
> happen that the original file gets destroyed but the new file doesn't manage 
> to replace it properly?
> 
the metadata is safe. but the contents of the new file might not be on
disk yet. XFS is/was particularly susceptible to this type of data loss.
so fdatasync() is indeed the solution.
probably, one should analyse how things look over nfs. not that i expect
any problems with nfs >= 3.

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