Coda File System

Re: Theory of writeback

From: <u+codalist-p4pg_at_chalmers.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:24:06 +0100
Hi Martin,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:38:00AM +0100, Martin Ginkel wrote:
> Can someone explain, what condition triggers venus to start writing
> back the file (Why?),
> which calls have to happen: fopen("file","w"); close(), is a write()
> necessary. And when does this happen (the close() call?).

open(,readwrite) triggers store operation at close() as Venus does not
intercept write() calls and does not know whether the file has changed.

Cheers,
Rune
Received on 2007-03-23 05:23:54