Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:08:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Solaris tmpfs vs. Linux RAMdisk |
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On 15-Apr-99 Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I'm also developing > journaling for linux ext2. In each case, you will end up maintaining > on-disk consistency, but making absolutely no promises to the > application about what hits disk when. The only way you get that is > to mount the disk synchronously or use fsync/O_SYNC etc.
I got the impression that you were planning on making synchronous writes put data into the log, and thereby make it pretty fast compared to normal synchronous writes. Is that still in the plan?
J
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