From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Write the inode itself in block_fsync()
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:10:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060309201053.682868db.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4410D0F1.3030307@vilain.net>
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
>
> OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >For block device's inode, we don't write a inode's meta data
> >itself. But, I think we should write inode's meta data for fsync().
> >
> >
>
> Ouch... won't that halve performance of database transaction logs?
Yes, it could well cause a lot more seeking to do atime and/or mtime
writes. Which aren't terribly important, really.
Unless I'm missing something, I suspect we'd be better off without this,
even though it's a correctness fix :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 16:22 [PATCH] Write the inode itself in block_fsync() OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-10 1:05 ` Sam Vilain
2006-03-10 4:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-10 14:12 ` Bart Samwel
2006-03-10 15:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-10 17:32 ` Bart Samwel
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