Re: ext3 file system

Mike Fedyk
2003-12-18T08:39:57Z

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:47:59PM -0700, jshankar wrote:
> Hello Hans,
>
> >Filesystems don't usually wait on the IO to complete before submitting
> >more IO in response to the next write() syscall. They can do this by
> >batching a whole bunch of operations into one committed transaction.
> >
>
> Is there a timeout mechanism for batching operations. What if certain
> operation
> is done after the batch operation is executed. Does it mean that the new
> operation has to wait.

You don't have to wait unless you run out of available non-dirty memory, or
issue a call to sync to the disks.