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From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Journaling UFS with gjournal.
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--- Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 2. If we have file system, synchronize it.
> 3. Mark file system as clean.
> 4. Block all write requests to the file system.
>
Shouldn't we do 4. before 2.?

Do we write _new_ blocks of a file via the journal or directly to the file
system (I mean: If we have a new file, that grows sequentially from 0 bytes to
1GB, it would save some disc access, if we didn't write the data to the
journal)?

I like the BIO_FLUSH idea...

-Arne


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