On 03/04/2010 00:06, Jeff Bonwick wrote:
What I mean is that the barrier semantic is implicit even with no ZIL at all.
In ZFS, if event A happens before event B, and you lose power, then
what you'll see on disk is either nothing, A, or both A and B. Never just B.
It is impossible for us not to have at least barrier semantics.
I'm not entirely sure but I think there might be an exception to this.
A happens as an asynchronous write, then B happens as a synchronous
write and is written to ZIL.
Now before A is committed a server looses power, after reboot B will be
committed to a pool. But A would never make it there.
Or am I missing something?
I think that sync=barrier would be confusing as it suggest that fsync()
is synchronous while it isn't with this setting.
However an extra explanation as the one above would be useful to be in
the zfs/zpool man page.
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