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SubjectRe: vfs: Add MS_FLUSHONFSYNC mount flag
On Thu 12-02-09 11:13:37, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> > This mount flag will be used to determine whether the block device's write
> > cache should be flush or not on fsync()/fdatasync().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
> > ---
>
> Again, apologies for chiming in late.
>
> But wouldn't it be better to make this a block device property rather
> than a new filesystem mount option?
Hum, that's an interesting idea. Yes, probably it makes even more sence
than a global mount option.

> That way the filesystem can always do "the right thing" and call the
> blkdev flush on fsync.
>
> The block device *could* choose to ignore this in hardware if it knows
> it's built with a nonvolatile write cache or if it has no write cache.
>
> Somewhere in the middle, if an administrator knows they have a UPS they
> trust and hardware that stays connected to it, they could tune the bdev
> to ignore these flush requests.
>
> Also that way if you have 8 partitions on a battery-backed blockdev, you
> can tune it once, instead of needing to mount all 8 filesystems with the
> new option.
Yes, but OTOH we should give sysadmin a possibility to enable / disable
it on just some partitions. I don't see a reasonable use for that but people
tend to do strange things ;) and here isn't probably a strong reason to not
allow them.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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