Re: Feature request: online fsync disable

[Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org>]

Chris Mason wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:10, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Thank you. I guess "data=writeback" will result in the desired behaviour.
> >
> > Are these patches tested?
>
> Yes, although I've now got 3 or 4 bug fixes from testing in the suse
> kernel that I need to put into the pure 2.4.19 patch.  I'm doing the
> last of the fixes today, and I'll start merging back into the main code
> on monday.  This was all supposed to happen last week, but I got
> diverted by some important other suse work.
>
> If your application is very fsync heavy and doesn't do many non-fsync
> writes data=journal will probably be much faster.
>
> -chris

Hello Chris,

I've been searching for the loggin patches at ftp://ftp.namesys.com/ and below,
but could not find any patch named "logging" or containg the word "writeback".
Can you point me to the logging patches?

Thank you. :-)

Xuân.