On 02/11, Junling Zheng wrote:
> Hi, Jaegeuk
> 
> On 2018/2/10 8:44, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > On 02/02, Junling Zheng wrote:
> >> Commit "0a007b97aad6"(f2fs: recover directory operations by fsync)
> >> fixed xfstest generic/342 case, but it also increased the written
> >> data and caused the performance degradation. In most cases, there's
> >> no need to do so heavily fsync actually.
> >>
> >> So we introduce a new mount option "strict_fsync" to control the
> >> policy of fsync. It's set by default, and means that fsync follows
> >> POSIX semantics. And "nostrict_fsync" means that the behaviour is
> >> in line with xfs, ext4 and btrfs, where generic/342 will pass.
> > 
> > How about adding "fsync=%s" to give another chance for fsync policies?
> > 
> 
> OK, I'll give patch v3 to change to "fsync=%s" format.
> BTW, which policy do u think should be the default behavior for f2fs? Posix
> or ext4?

The default should be like ext4 as fsync=strict. We may add fsync=posix for
this.

Thanks,

> 
> Thanks
> Junling
> 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Junling Zheng <zhengjunl...@huawei.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuch...@huawei.com>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt |  4 ++++
> >>  fs/f2fs/dir.c                      |  3 ++-
> >>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                     |  1 +
> >>  fs/f2fs/file.c                     |  3 ++-
> >>  fs/f2fs/namei.c                    |  9 ++++++---
> >>  fs/f2fs/super.c                    | 13 +++++++++++++
> >>  6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>

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