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From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Ring <stefanrin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com>, Linux fs XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Questions about XFS
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:31:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B75EF7.40801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxjCEyne63XH1Uk6_7jzjaxDbsSopO9E+=6oo3xE=PvjBFcjA@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/11/2013 01:27 PM, Stefan Ring wrote:
>> Let's take a simple example - a database app that does say 30
>> transactions/sec.
>>
>> In your example, you are extremely likely to lose up to just shy of 5
>> seconds of "committed" data - way over 100 transactions!  That can be
>> *really* serious amounts of data and translate into large financial loss.
> Every database software will do the flushing correctly.

Stefan, you are making my point because every database will do the right thing, 
it won't rely on ext3's magic every 5 second fsync :)

Ric

>
>> In a second example, let's say you are copying data to disk (say a movie) at
>> a rate of 50 MB/second.  When the power cut hits at just the wrong time, you
>> will have lost a large chunk of that data that has been "written" to disk
>> (over 200MB).
> But why would anyone care about that? I know that the system went down
> while copying this large movie, so I'll just copy it again.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-11 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-11  9:56 Questions about XFS Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 13:10 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-06-11 13:35 ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 13:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 13:59 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 16:12   ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 17:19     ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-11 17:27       ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 17:31         ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2013-06-11 17:41           ` Stefan Ring
2013-06-11 18:03             ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-11 19:30           ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 21:03             ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-11 21:43               ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 17:59         ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 17:28     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-11 19:17       ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 21:47         ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-22 14:59       ` Steve Bergman
2013-07-22 15:16         ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-12  8:26     ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-12 10:34       ` Ric Wheeler
2013-06-12 13:52         ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-12 12:12       ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-06-12 13:48         ` Roger Oberholtzer
2013-06-13  0:48       ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-11 19:35 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 19:55   ` Steve Bergman
2013-06-11 20:08     ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11 21:57     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-06-11 22:18       ` Steve Bergman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-25 14:28 harryxiyou
2013-10-25 14:42 ` Emmanuel Florac
2013-10-25 14:57   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-25 16:24     ` harryxiyou
2013-10-25 16:44     ` harryxiyou
2013-10-26 10:41     ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-10-27  3:29       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-10-25 16:13   ` harryxiyou
2013-10-25 16:16     ` Eric Sandeen
2007-03-13 13:40 clflush
2007-03-13 15:36 ` Klaus Strebel
2007-03-13 15:53 ` Stein M. Hugubakken
2007-03-13 15:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-03-14 16:33 ` Stewart Smith
2007-03-15  4:26   ` Taisuke Yamada
2007-03-15  9:07     ` clflush
2007-03-15 14:41       ` Geir A. Myrestrand
2007-03-16 10:36       ` Martin Steigerwald
2007-03-17  0:47         ` Jason White

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