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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync()
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:43:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C441C1.5060305@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802262016.11297.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is
> a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :(

Agreed...  it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have 
to hack each filesystem to support barriers.

It seems far easier to make sync_blkdev() Do The Right Thing, and 
magically make all filesystems data-safe.

	Jeff



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26  7:26 Proposal for "proper" durable fsync() and fdatasync() Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26  7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-26  7:59   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26  9:16     ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26 14:09       ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-26 15:07         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26 16:27           ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-26 15:28         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26 17:02           ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-26 17:29             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26 17:38               ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-26 16:43       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-02-26 17:00         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26 17:54           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-27 14:16             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26  7:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-26  7:55   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26  9:25   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-02-26 12:13   ` Ric Wheeler
2008-02-26 15:43     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-24 21:10       ` Sachin Gaikwad
2008-11-25 10:17         ` Jamie Lokier

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