Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[Russell Nelson]

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 > I believe that ext2 honors fsync() as well (but not in 2.3 yet).
 > Could someone who knows more confirm?  The metadata is still
 > asyncronous though so FFS with softupdates is probably better.

ext2 has always honored fsync.  You fsync a file, and its data goes
off to disk.  You fsync a directory and its data goes off to disk.
The only reason this surprises anyone is because the BSD hackers
decided that fsyncing a file should also fsync the directory the file
resides in.

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