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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:33:07 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates
Message-ID:  <20030412033307.GR30960@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr>
References:  <3E976EBD.C3E66EF8@tel.fer.hr>

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* Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr> [030411 19:01] 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 really the only bad thing I can see here, what about introducing
a slight delay and seeing if one can coalesce the writes?  Is this
part really needed?  Making fsync() not work is a good way to make
any sort of userland based transactional system break badly.

otherwise, way cool!

-Alfred



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