Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:15:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | "imel..." <> | Subject | Re: weird ext2 sync behaviour |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > The +S bit only applies to directory updates. If a directory has the +S > bit set then name updates in that directory are all synchronous. The > flag is inherited by subdirs. The fact that regular files inherit it > too doesn't matter: you still need to open(O_SYNC) explicitly to get > synchronous metadata updates for regular files.
i see, regular files only care about filp->f_flags, right? i guess i need to set NOATIME too, cause performance degradation is too high. thanks.
imel
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