Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:38:17 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates Message-ID: <3E985D19.1070206@tenebras.com> In-Reply-To: <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr> References: <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr>
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Marko Zec wrote: > - fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately > instead; Any system that does this should be flushed down the toilet. Softupdates already breaks transaction semantics of FFS by breaking link()/unlink()/rename() etc. Don't make it worse. Many programs rely on fsync().
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