On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:51:24PM +0200, Rainer Toebbicke wrote: > Jim Rees wrote: > >I wonder if the fsync is really necessary. This would go a hundred times > >faster without it. > > 200 times on a standard RAID. Measured. > > While I don't believe it's necessary, I did not dare to remove it > entirely, believing in the good reasons that must have motivated > somebody to fsync in the first place. > > Instead, I came up with a patch that batches all the fsyncs together > into one on a suitable scale. We've been running like that for over a > year now with no ill effects. On the contrary - it motivated migrating > to the namei file server instead of the inode one which will still do > this inside the file system through inc()/dec(). > > I'll dig that one out and submit it.
Please do -- I recall reading about your patch earlier, but I can't seem to find a copy. -- // Miles Davis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~miles // Computer Science Department - Computer Facilities // Stanford University _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
