Re: Linux 2.6.29

Jeff Garzik
2009-03-27T22:07:05Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> On the other side of the coin, major desktop apps Firefox and Thunderbird
>> already use it: Firefox uses sqlite [...]
>
> You do know that Firefox had to _disable_ fsync() exactly because not
> disabling it was unacceptable? That whole "why does firefox stop for 5
> seconds" thing created too many bug-reports.
>
>> So, arguments about "people should..." aside, existing desktops apps _do_
>> fsync and we get to deal with the bad performance :/
>
> No they don't. Read up on it. Really.

What is in Fedora 10 and Debian lenny's iceweasel both definitely sync
to disk, as of today, according to my own tests.

I'm talking about what's in real world user's hands today, not some
hoped-for future version in developer CVS somewhere, depending on build
options and who knows what else...

Jeff