Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:37:05 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about file system checks Message-ID: <9bbcef730803281537k1051f3ffn59f7440318c11df5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200803282316.34595.max@love2party.net> References: <47EBA3AB.40307@infracaninophile.co.uk> <47EC9245.6060200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <fsjp7l$4ov$1@ger.gmane.org> <200803282316.34595.max@love2party.net>
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On 28/03/2008, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote: > Can you please give more details about your benchmark? It seems to me > that the only thing you are measuring is how many files you managed to > touch between the last sync(2) and plugging the power. This is not an > interesting number. I'd say it's mildly interesting, for a file server. :) >What would be interesting is to stop the syncer, > touch a known number of files and then pull the plug. > > But in the end it boils down to: There is fsync to build transactions - > use it or else. If you find that you lose fsync'ed files, that's a > reason for concern, of course. You are right, of course. If I get the chance I'll redo the whole thing with fsync.
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