On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:03 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Do you really believe it to be wrong? Do we stop performing the correct > write calls in the correct order to the kernel with fsync being off? If > the kernel actually handles all of our write calls correctly and we > cleanly shut down and the kernel cleanly shuts down and sync's the disks > before a reboot, will there be corruption from running with fsync off?
This is a total straw man. Everyone understands the technical issues with fsync perfectly well, and everyone understands that everyone understands the issue, so spare me the "I'm just a humble country lawyer" style explanation. What you seem to be arguing is that the differences between disabling checksums and disabling fsync is basically quantitative, and so making a qualitative distinction between those two things is meaningless, and that it logically follows that disagreeing with you is essentially irresponsible. This is a tactic that would be an embarrassment to a high school debate team. It's below you. Your argument may be logically consistent, but it's still nonsense. -- Peter Geoghegan