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- Date: 16 Dec 93 16:29:43+0000
- From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Message-Id: <1038.9312161629@elvis.earth.ox.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Update-daemon for all FSes
- To: Thierry Bousch <bousch@suntopo.matups.fr>
- References: <9312161531.AA22754@suntopo.matups.fr>
- In-Reply-To: <93 04:31:30 pm>
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- Hmm.. let's face it we need a new system call Fsync() which calls each
- filesystem device driver in turn requesting that they flush any buffers.
- Filesystems which don't support this should just return an "OK doing it"
- code.
-
- It'd be up to the filesystem driver code what it did then.
-
- Also... I think it would be a good idea if sensitive filesystems mounted
- themselves read-only until such time as they have been checked by a
- filesystem integrity checking program, such as Minixfs's. This would be the
- safest way of going about things. The filesystem device driver could do the
- checking itself at boot time if it felt like it. Currently I can't fsck my
- system partition as by the time I can run fsck minixfs blocks fsck from
- running on it!
-
- Steve
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