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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request: online fsync disable
Date: 23 Aug 2002 09:08:39 -0400
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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

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