Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:25:07 +0100 | From | Sitsofe Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: Ext4 and the "30 second window of death" |
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:21:43PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > > Some guy named Andrew used to run a kernel with 'return 0' at the top > of fsync and fdatasync: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/88
(Quoting out of context from Andrew's mail)
"hm, fsync.
Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so important that they need to fsync it all the time."
So the advice/complaint is that apps shouldn't fsync unless absolutely necessary because syncing will always slow?
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