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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:49:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908110649.20277.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249934623-15939-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> +	  "data=ordered" mode can also result in major performance
> +	  problems, including seconds-long delays before an fsync()
> +	  call returns.	 For details, see:
> +
> +	  http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext3_data_mode_tradeoffs

Why isn't the fsync problem fixable?


Thanks!

--
Al


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-11 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10 20:03 [PATCH, RFC] ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED Theodore Ts'o
2009-08-10 20:28 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-10 20:55 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-11  3:49 ` Al Boldi [this message]
2009-08-11  9:33   ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 11:41     ` Al Boldi
2009-08-11 13:35 ` What happened to data=guarded? (was: ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED) Frans Pop
2009-08-11 13:37   ` Chris Mason
2009-08-11 14:54     ` What happened to data=guarded? Frans Pop
2009-08-11 15:29       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-11 15:34         ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 18:04           ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-11 18:57         ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-10 16:42           ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-12 20:37             ` Jan Kara
2009-08-11 19:09           ` Andi Kleen

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