On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:01:15 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 07:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:31:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Just got this from Christoph Helwig: > > > > > > 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg review and > > > ack the > > > per-fs sync ioctl path that sage weil sent out a couple of > > > weeks > > > ago > > > 13:24 < hch> bwh: and report the ext4 fsync issues to the list, I know > > > ext4 > > > fsync isn't stellar, but the numbers sounds so bad that > > > there must > > > be a bug somewhere > > > > > The patch referred to is in > > > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/44628>. > > > > Unfortunately that patch does not seem much appealing, it's Linux only, > > not even in mainline, and it would need for dpkg to track on which file > > system each file is located and issue such ioctl once per file system. > > You don't need to tell me this.
Well, you posted what seemed a proposal for a possible solution (even if forwarded from someone else), and I gave the reasons why I'd rather not use it. It was not meant as and insult or implying you don't know those things. I'd think that was better than just a "No" or no reply? (But then maybe I'm just misreading your reply?) > Please talk to upstream about the bad fsync() performance. Upstream was notified already about that some time ago <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15910>. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
