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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>,
	Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org>,
	Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@Namesys.COM>,
	zam@thebsh.namesys.com
Subject: Re: Feature request: online fsync disable
Date: 23 Aug 2002 09:08:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030108119.17778.8.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15718.9718.736822.978374@laputa.namesys.com>

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 08:09, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Hans Reiser writes:
>  > It is a reasonable feature request I think.
>  > 
>  > Zam, put it into reiser4.1.
>  > 
> 
> I think, in stead of feature "disable fsync", better alternative would
> be "disable journalling", or "journal meta-data only".

Well, if the application doesn't really need fsync, it shouldn't call
it.  I'd much rather fix whatever problem is making things too slow.

Xuan, you could try the data logging patches in either data=writeback or
data=journal.  Either one will be significantly faster than stock
2.4.19.

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-23 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-23 11:29 Feature request: online fsync disable Xuan Baldauf
2002-08-23 11:52 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-23 11:56   ` Oleg Drokin
2002-08-23 11:59     ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-23 12:09       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-23 13:08         ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-08-23 18:10           ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-08-24 19:15             ` Chris Mason
2002-09-04 11:39               ` Xuan Baldauf
2002-09-04 12:13                 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-08-25 21:21             ` Matthias Andree
2002-08-26  6:02               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-08-25 21:20       ` Matthias Andree
2002-08-26 11:27         ` Hans Reiser
     [not found]       ` <20020905035604.GB6004@tapu.f00f.org>
2002-09-05 10:39         ` Hans Reiser
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-23 16:24 Xuan Baldauf

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