Re: More Slowdown

[Francesco Biscani <biscani@pd.astro.it>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 01:45, David Masover wrote:
> I got sick of waiting for it and nuked the fsync call.  All my kernels
> have a custom patch such that sys_fsync just returns true, no matter what.

Mhh.. would it be something like this?

--- buffer.c.old        2005-11-16 02:36:46.129829994 +0100
+++ buffer.c    2005-11-16 02:37:11.125079752 +0100
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@

 asmlinkage long sys_fsync(unsigned int fd)
 {
-       return do_fsync(fd, 0);
+       return 1;
 }

What are the implications of doing something like this? Is "sync" going to 
stop working or isn't it using this function?

Thanks,

  Francesco

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Dr. Francesco Biscani
Dipartimento di Astronomia
Università di Padova
biscani@pd.astro.it