On Sat, 23.03.13 23:54, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:26:59PM +0200, Oleksii Shevchuk wrote: > > > > Add option to force journal sync with fdatasync. Disabled by default. > > > Hi Oleksii, > > > why is it off by default? > > > > Hi Zbyszek, > > After discussion i am unsure about defaults for that option. > > Maybe only who cares should enable it? > IIUC, the point of this patch is to avoid losing the journal after > a crash during the time when journal is idle. This seems like a > generally desirable property. So we should make it work (without > too much overhead) for the majority of > hardware/logging-intensity/power-saving-rules configurations, > and enable it by default. > > On IRC Kay suggested 1-5 min. I think that this sounds about right. > Once the patch is in, I guess we can gather some statistics from > people and tune the settings. I'd propose to turn it on, and set it to a conservative value, otherwise people might wine too quickly reagrding spinning up hard disks... 5min or 10min sounds OK. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel