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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [patch 11/18] dirsync
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 14:54:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CF15989.D6AA332C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF14973.B61EF771@zip.com.au> <20020526093637.V32110@lustre.cfs> <3CF15838.FE768070@zip.com.au>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> "Peter J. Braam" wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I think this patch is actually pretty important - could we please have
> > this, or something like this?
> >
> 
> Well `-o sync' will give the same result.  dirsync is just a speedup.
> 
> I should have mentioned: untarring a kernel tree with dirsync is 4x to
> 5x faster than `-o sync', but still tons slower (5x?) than default.

grr.  On ext2.  

On ext3, dirsync _is_ sync for journalled and ordered modes.  If you
run a commit, you sync the entire fs, end of story.  So dirsync on ext3
really only makes a difference in writeback mode.

-

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-26 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-26 20:45 [patch 11/18] dirsync Andrew Morton
2002-05-26 15:36 ` [Ext2-devel] " Peter J. Braam
2002-05-26 21:48   ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-26 21:54     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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