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authorJakob Unterwurzacher2023-06-09 07:50:11 +0200
committerJakob Unterwurzacher2024-12-13 21:21:15 +0100
commit0008ce3f789d2db581920a8cb859f74be1b650fc (patch)
treecc578eac90453455039b942a51031b38514408a2
parent3868f63fbdb97d61c7ff78a9a5b1ba805741aa50 (diff)
tests/cluster: note that ext4 provides no atomicity
-rw-r--r--tests/cluster/cluster_test.go7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/cluster/cluster_test.go b/tests/cluster/cluster_test.go
index 4f39410..d154100 100644
--- a/tests/cluster/cluster_test.go
+++ b/tests/cluster/cluster_test.go
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ import (
// > Other Linux filesystems only guaranty page level atomicity for
// > buffered read/write.
//
+// Note that ext4 actually provides NO ATOMICITY AT ALL.
+// Quoting https://stackoverflow.com/a/35256626 :
+//
+// > Linux 4.2.6 with ext4: update atomicity = 1 byte
+//
+// TestPoCTornWrite in this package confirms this.
+//
// See also:
// - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20190325001044.GA23020@dastard/
// Dave Chinner: XFS is the only linux filesystem that provides this behaviour.