Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:10:53 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Write the inode itself in block_fsync() |
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Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote: > > OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >For block device's inode, we don't write a inode's meta data > >itself. But, I think we should write inode's meta data for fsync(). > > > > > > Ouch... won't that halve performance of database transaction logs?
Yes, it could well cause a lot more seeking to do atime and/or mtime writes. Which aren't terribly important, really.
Unless I'm missing something, I suspect we'd be better off without this, even though it's a correctness fix :( - 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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