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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
Hi,

On 15 Jul 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Doing that instead of fsync'ing the
> file adds at most two system calls (to open and close the directory),

Keep the directory fd open all the time, and flush it when needed. This
gets rid of the open(dir, dd); fsync(dd); close(dd);, you just have:
open(dir, dd); once, then fsync(dd); fsync(dd); ... and then one close(dd);

Not too much of an overhead, is it?

Regards,
Thunder
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