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Subject: Re: fsync() madness
From: Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () cirulla ! net>
Date: 2008-04-21 16:26:53
Message-ID: 200804211826.53788.mikelima () cirulla ! net
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On Monday 21 April 2008 18:12:28 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
>
> Hey, I use XFS and I don't feel like a tiny minority - it is one of the
> better filesystems :)
>
If you are happy with it, keep using it. But I still think you are in a
minority, I know no major distro using it as default.
> We should also consider that other programs out there are not so zealous in
>
> > protecting user data... so if this were a real issue, people would steer
> > away
> > from the filesystem.
>
> Right. I use XFS and the frequent "hangs" on disk I/O that I get are a PITA
> while using the desktop. I don't care about config files *that* much...
> what about a "reliable flag" or something, or even explicit sync?
Now, this is interesting. Is the sync a way for KDE to say "do not use
XFS"? :)
> Another approach is to hold off sync calls for some milliseconds to combine
> several calls.
Well, the buffers are normally flushed to disk periodically every 5-10
seconds...
If a power failure happens at the right time, the files will be corrupt
anyway.
At some point, we will just have to trust the OS to do the right thing.
Luciano
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