From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux does not care for data integrity
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:37:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429E62C1.2040605@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <429E5483.3020404@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> This would change the meaning of fsync from "force out the data" to
>> "wait for the data to be written" in some implementations.
>
>
> This is the meaning of fsync: copies all in-core parts of a file to
> disk, and waits until the device reports that all parts are on stable
> storage.
>
> Anything less is a bug.
How about anything more? The truth is that much common hardware doesn't
really make the cache to disk move visible, and turning off cache really
hurts performance. And it would appear that fsync force a lot more data
out of memory than just the blocks for the file in question.
However, the point I was making is that it would be useful to be able to
tell when the write to non-volatile took place, not to force that to
happen. Not to do anything which would flush a lot of other stuff and
busy the drive. What I suggest is NOT fsync, just a way to assure ordering.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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Thread overview: 142+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 5:51 Hyper-Threading Vulnerability Gabor MICSKO
2005-05-13 12:47 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-05-13 14:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-13 14:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-13 14:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-13 17:13 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-05-13 18:30 ` Vadim Lobanov
2005-05-13 19:02 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-05-15 9:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-13 17:14 ` Gabor MICSKO
2005-05-13 20:23 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-05-13 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-13 18:34 ` Eric Rannaud
2005-05-13 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-13 18:49 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-13 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-13 19:36 ` Grant Coady
2005-05-16 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-16 12:37 ` Tommy Reynolds
2005-05-18 19:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 18:38 ` Richard F. Rebel
2005-05-13 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-13 21:26 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-05-13 21:59 ` Matt Mackall
2005-05-13 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-13 23:00 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 23:27 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-13 23:38 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 23:44 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-14 7:37 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-14 15:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-05-15 1:07 ` Christer Weinigel
2005-05-15 9:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-14 15:23 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-14 15:45 ` andrea
2005-05-15 13:38 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-16 7:06 ` andrea
2005-05-14 16:30 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-14 16:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-14 17:56 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-14 18:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-14 19:21 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-14 19:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-14 23:40 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-15 7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-15 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 20:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-15 21:10 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-15 22:55 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-15 23:10 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-16 7:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-15 9:37 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 3:19 ` dean gaudet
2005-05-15 10:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 10:23 ` 2.6.4 timer and helper functions kernel
2005-05-19 0:38 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-15 9:33 ` Hyper-Threading Vulnerability Adrian Bunk
2005-05-14 17:04 ` Jindrich Makovicka
2005-05-14 18:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-15 9:58 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-14 0:39 ` dean gaudet
2005-05-16 13:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-05-15 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 18:42 ` David Schwartz
2005-05-15 18:56 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-05-16 7:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-05-16 11:04 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-16 19:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-05-16 20:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-15 14:00 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-15 14:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-13 23:32 ` Paul Jakma
2005-05-14 16:29 ` Paul Jakma
2005-05-13 19:14 ` Jim Crilly
2005-05-13 20:18 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-05-13 23:14 ` Jim Crilly
2005-05-13 19:16 ` Diego Calleja
2005-05-13 19:42 ` Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One)
2005-05-15 9:54 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 13:51 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-15 14:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 14:21 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-15 14:52 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-05-15 15:00 ` Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-15 15:21 ` Gene Heskett
2005-05-15 15:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-15 16:27 ` Disk write cache Kenichi Okuyama
2005-05-15 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-15 16:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-15 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-15 23:31 ` Cache based insecurity/CPU cache/Disk Cache Tradeoffs Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-15 16:58 ` Disk write cache Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-15 17:20 ` Kenichi Okuyama
2005-05-16 11:02 ` Linux does not care for data integrity (was: Disk write cache) Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 11:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-16 11:29 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 14:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-16 14:48 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-16 15:40 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-16 19:11 ` Linux does not care for data integrity Florian Weimer
2005-05-29 21:02 ` Linux does not care for data integrity (was: Disk write cache) Greg Stark
2005-05-29 21:16 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-30 6:04 ` Greg Stark
2005-05-30 8:21 ` Matthias Andree
2005-06-01 19:02 ` Linux does not care for data integrity Bill Davidsen
2005-06-01 22:02 ` Matthias Andree
2005-06-02 0:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-02 0:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-02 1:37 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-06-02 1:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-02 8:53 ` Helge Hafting
2005-06-02 12:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-02 13:33 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-04 13:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-04 15:31 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-05-16 14:57 ` Linux does not care for data integrity (was: Disk write cache) Alan Cox
2005-05-16 13:48 ` Linux does not care for data integrity Mark Lord
2005-05-16 14:59 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 1:56 ` Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) Gene Heskett
2005-05-16 2:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-16 2:24 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-16 3:05 ` Gene Heskett
2005-05-16 2:32 ` Mark Lord
2005-05-16 3:08 ` Gene Heskett
2005-05-16 13:44 ` Mark Lord
2005-05-18 4:03 ` Eric D. Mudama
2005-05-15 16:24 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-05-16 11:18 ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 14:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-16 15:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-16 16:00 ` [OT] drive behavior on power-off (was: Disk write cache) Matthias Andree
2005-05-16 18:11 ` Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-16 14:54 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-17 13:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-17 21:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-18 4:06 ` Eric D. Mudama
2005-05-15 21:38 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-05-16 14:50 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 15:00 ` Hyper-Threading Vulnerability Arjan van de Ven
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