Hi
I got problem with apps that are calling fsync, it makes my hard drive
flush like mad and it slows down things quite a lot.
Example:
I'm using amarok and amrok uses sqlite for storing data, sqlite calls
fsync after every write so on song change amarok writes to sqlite some
statistic data about what I listen and sqllite calls fsync, now I got
amarok trying to load next song and sqlite fsyncing and the problem is
that fsyncing under reiser4 is expensive, it takes a lot of time even if
I'm only running amarok and nothing else ( I got 4200RPM drive in my
notebook so it;s not a speed daemon). I patched sqlite in amarok to fake
all fsync and it fixed it but there are other apps that try to secure my
data by syncing (I'm now running azareus and only fsyncs called every
minute can explain writing to disk at full speed almost non stop while I'm
downloading only 64KB/s ).
So my question is: is there any way to disable fsync for reiser4? (beside
patching it to fake fsync instead of doing them).
Thanks for great fs.
Łukasz Mierzwa
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