From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: dirsync doesn't seem to work Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20040730011505.GB4950@zero> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com when i run this: while true; do touch heh; rm -f heh; done on reiserfs, it doesn't seem to be actually writing. the wait cpu % is very low when using reiserfs or normal mode ext3. when i mount ext3 using dirsync, and i run the loop, wait time is above 90%. this is the best test method i can think of right now. i can't hear a difference in the drive (which might be using write back cache, but i can't reformat any of my scsi drives in ext3 right now to see they make more noise with dirsync + write-through). -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE