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SubjectRe: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Which filesystem?
>
> If ext3 in ordered-data mode: any fsync() will sync the whole filesystem
> (it has to).

Could you explain some more why it has to?... Is this caused by design of
ext3 or any filesystem in ordered-data mode has to do it?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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