From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10
Date: 02 Nov 2000 18:36:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwu29q1djc.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010311237430.22165-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <E13qiR9-0008FT-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20001102171717.L1876@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: "Stephen C. Tweedie"'s message of "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:17:17 +0000"
Hi Stephen,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> The patch I sent fully implements O_SYNC (actually, it implements
> O_DSYNC, which is allowed to skip the inode sync if the only
> attribute which has changed is the timestamps) and fdatasync. It's
> easy for me to make the DSYNC selectable via sysctl for full SU
> compliance, and I know of other unixes that already do this --- you
> really don't want existing database applications suddenly to start
> seeking to the inode block for every O_SYNC write.
No, we definitely do not want to have that. We had big performance
problems at customer sites when another unix did change the behaviour
exactly that way between releases.
Greetings
Christoph
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-31 20:41 Linux-2.4.0-test10 Linus Torvalds
2000-10-31 20:48 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Rik van Riel
2000-10-31 20:57 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Linus Torvalds
2000-11-01 5:40 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 adrian
2000-10-31 20:55 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Alan Cox
2000-11-01 1:35 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Paul Jakma
2000-11-01 3:53 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2000-11-01 8:38 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Andi Kleen
2000-11-01 18:08 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 kuznet
2000-11-02 0:03 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-01 23:52 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 David S. Miller
2000-11-02 17:17 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-11-02 17:36 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-11-03 19:18 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Pavel Machek
2000-11-04 18:49 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Marco d'Itri
2000-11-05 1:44 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-06 12:55 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-11-09 16:45 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-11-01 2:18 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Tom Rini
2000-11-01 5:46 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Miles Lane
2000-11-01 5:43 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Linus Torvalds
2000-11-01 10:19 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-01 15:01 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Alan Cox
2000-11-01 15:19 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Tigran Aivazian
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-01 6:03 Linux-2.4.0-test10 M.H.VanLeeuwen
2000-11-01 19:28 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 David Ford
2000-11-02 0:08 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 M.H.VanLeeuwen
2000-11-02 2:57 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 David Ford
2000-11-02 7:15 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Vitezslav Samel
2000-11-01 12:51 Linux-2.4.0-test10 Mikael Pettersson
2000-11-01 16:12 Linux-2.4.0-test10 CRADOCK, Christopher
2000-11-02 0:44 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 M.H.VanLeeuwen
2000-11-02 17:57 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2000-11-02 18:38 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2000-11-03 6:25 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 kernel
2000-11-03 10:02 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Ben Ford
2000-11-07 10:22 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2000-11-07 18:39 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 Zephaniah E. Hull
2000-11-03 7:08 ` Linux-2.4.0-test10 James Simmons
2000-11-02 18:46 Linux-2.4.0-test10 CRADOCK, Christopher
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