Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:32:23 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates
Message-ID:  <20030412203223.GA18848@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E985D19.1070206@tenebras.com>
References:  <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr> <3E985D19.1070206@tenebras.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> [030412 11:38] wrote:
> 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.

How does it do that?



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030412203223.GA18848>