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
next prev 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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