On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Guenter <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:02:07PM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote: >> Dropping a tree can be lengthy. It's not good to let sync wait for hours. >> For most linux FS, 'sync' just force an transaction/journal commit. I don't >> think they wait for large operations that can span multiple transactions to >> complete. > > What happens to the consistency of the filesystem if a crash happens > during this process? There's a good test case for you to try. Let us know what you find. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
