Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:59:56 +0400 | From | "Marat Buharov" <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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On 4/27/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so important > that they need to fsync it all the time. I used to run a kernel on my > laptop which had "return 0;" at the top of fsync() and fdatasync(). Most > pleasurable.
So, if having fake fsync() and fdatasync() is pleasurable for laptop and desktop, may be it's time to add option into Kconfig which disables normal fsync behaviour in favor of robust desktop? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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