Re: fsync() madness

[Gary Greene <greeneg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 April 2008 8:15:51 am Sami Liedes wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:11:40PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 of April 2008, Sami Liedes wrote:
> > > I had missed that post. Still, no analysis of the performance hit
> > > there, and I think the attitude of "no data loss at all allowed at any
> > > power loss, implement at any cost to performance" is misguided.
> >
> >  Tell that to XFS developers and their users. Anyway, where's your patch?
>
> The patch is simple and not very fine grained, but effective and
> shouldn't break anything unless a power loss happens. Attached.
>
> 	Sami

Again you are not taking into account XFS. How many times must we iterate over 
this.... _If you don't have the code check which FS this is on and PROPERLY 
deal with this, you will kill users data._

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