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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: jshankar <jshankar@CS.ColoState.EDU>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 file system
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:39:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031218083957.GA6438@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FE23273@webmail.colostate.edu>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-18  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-18  4:47 ext3 file system jshankar
2003-12-18  8:39 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-12-18 10:41   ` Hans Reiser
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-17 23:25 jshankar
2003-12-17 23:59 ` Brad Boyer
2003-12-18  1:25 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-18 14:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-17 22:13 jshankar
2003-12-17 22:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-17 23:02   ` Mike Fedyk

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