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Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:05:20 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304121004440.14291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr>

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Marko Zec wrote:

> When enabled, the extended delaying policy introduces some additional
> changes:
>
> - fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately
> instead;

This is bad; the rest looks very interesting.


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