Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:18:45 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10 |
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Hi!
> The patch I sent fully implements O_SYNC (actually, it implements > O_DSYNC, which is allowed to skip the inode sync if the only attribute > which has changed is the timestamps) and fdatasync. It's easy for me > to make the DSYNC selectable via sysctl for full SU compliance, and I > know of other unixes that already do this --- you really don't want > existing database applications suddenly to start seeking to the inode > block for every O_SYNC write.
It looks to me like times updates are upper-bound by once per second, no? So this should not be (big) issue. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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