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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Write the inode itself in block_fsync()
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 :(
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