Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:41:18 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: ext3 file system |
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Mike Fedyk wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:47:59PM -0700, jshankar wrote: > > >>Hello Hans, >> >> >> >>>Filesystems don't usually wait on the IO to complete before submitting >>>more IO in response to the next write() syscall. They can do this by >>>batching a whole bunch of operations into one committed transaction. >>> >>> >>> >>Is there a timeout mechanism for batching operations. >> At some point due to its age or size you decide the batch needs to commit.
>> What if certain >>operation >>is done after the batch operation is executed. Does it mean that the new >>operation has to wait. >> >> > >You don't have to wait unless you run out of available non-dirty memory, or >issue a call to sync to the disks. > > > >
-- Hans
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