From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: Collect data? Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:19:42 +0300 Message-ID: <4384888E.2040407@namesys.com> References: <200511171447.41362.mail@earthworm.de> <200511231253.37328.mail@earthworm.de> <20051123121751.GC26252@favonius> <200511231321.18455.mail@earthworm.de> <20051123122809.GA31528@favonius> <43846A0C.6010808@namesys.com> <20051123151016.GA7768@favonius> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20051123151016.GA7768@favonius> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sander@humilis.net Cc: "Hesse, Christian" , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, "E.Gryaznova" Hello Sander wrote: > Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote (ao): >>Please unapply the attached patch and check whether it makes any effect. > > Is there any risk involved in testing this patch? It should not. The only problem it will cause is not updating atime on accessing files. > > And is this a real patch which fixes a real problem, or is it a test? > No. This is not a fix. This is a patch which I suspect is responsible for sync performance drop. It fixes old reiser4 bug known as "not updating atime". I asked you to reverse this patch to check whether this patch caused recent sync performance degradation.