From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, berrange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] Add flag to ext2fs_flush and ext2fs_close to avoid fsync.
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:53:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110924165350.GC2779@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110923102342.GC31740@amd.home.annexia.org>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [Hopefully sent to the right place this time ...]
>
> This patch allows users of the ext2fs library to avoid doing an fsync
> on close (obviously this is optional, and doesn't affect existing callers).
>
> Where this helps us is when constructing a throwaway ext2 filesystem
> just to boot a virtual machine. By avoiding the 2 x fsync, we save
> over 5 seconds and many many unnecessary disk writes.
Added to the e2fsprogs next branch, thanks. It will be part of the
e2fsprogs 1.42 release.
- Ted
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2011-09-23 10:23 [PATCH e2fsprogs] Add flag to ext2fs_flush and ext2fs_close to avoid fsync Richard W.M. Jones
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