From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: jshankar <jshankar@CS.ColoState.EDU>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 file system
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:41:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE1844E.9070700@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031218083957.GA6438@matchmail.com>
Mike Fedyk wrote:
>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.
>>
At some point due to its age or size you decide the batch needs to commit.
>> 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.
>
>
>
>
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-18 10:41 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
2003-12-18 10:41 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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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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