Hello Sander wrote: > Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote (ao): >>Please unapply the attached patch and check whether it makes any effect. > > Is there any risk involved in testing this patch?
It should not. The only problem it will cause is not updating atime on accessing files. > > And is this a real patch which fixes a real problem, or is it a test? > No. This is not a fix. This is a patch which I suspect is responsible for sync performance drop. It fixes old reiser4 bug known as "not updating atime". I asked you to reverse this patch to check whether this patch caused recent sync performance degradation.
