From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request: online fsync disable
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:39:19 +0400
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To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>, Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>, Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org>, Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@Namesys.COM>, zam@thebsh.namesys.com

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 03:59:58PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>    It is a reasonable feature request I think.
>
>No it's not.
>
>It's a terrible idea.  If someone calls fsync, they call it for a
>reason and have various expectations.
>
Usually these expectations involve a user not wanting to use mkreiserfs 
at every boot.  If the expectations are wrong, then all power to the user.

>  You should not throw these
>away or else you may as well just start writing random data all over
>the place.
>
>
>
>  --cw
>
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