Re: Linux 2.6.29

Linus Torvalds
2009-03-25T23:26:18Z

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >
> > The problem being that unlike the ratio, there's no sane default value
> > that you can at least argue is not _entirely_ pointless.
>
> Well, if the maximum time that someone wants to wait for an fsync() to
> return is one second, and the RAID array can write 100MB/sec

How are you going to tell the kernel that the RAID array can write
100MB/s?

The kernel has no idea.

Linus