>Tim Haley wrote: >> I am sponsoring the following fast-track for Robert Milkowski and Neil >> Perrin. It introduces a new dataset property for controlling >> synchronous behavior. The case requests micro/patch binding. > >Thanks for this. > >One nit... >> The options and semantics proposed for a new zfs dataset property: >> >> sync=default >> This is the default option. Synchronous file system transactions >> (fsync, O_DSYNC, O_SYNC, etc) are written out (to the intent log) >> and then secondly all devices written are flushed to ensure >> the data is stable (not cached by device controllers). > >The naming of this one seems strange. >I would have had something like sync=posix, and document that sync=posix >is the default. (Maybe posix isn't the right term.) sync=default doesn't >actually tell you what the behavior is.
I agree; you can never change the default either :-) I propose "sync=standard"; posix sounds so dated. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
