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Subject: Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Marko Zec wrote:

> When enabled, the extended delaying policy introduces some additional
> changes:
>
> - fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately
> instead;

This is bad; the rest looks very interesting.


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