PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates
Alfred Perlstein
bright at mu.org
Fri Apr 11 20:33:08 PDT 2003
* Marko Zec <zec at tel.fer.hr> [030411 19:01] wrote:
>
> When enabled, the extended delaying policy introduces some additional
> changes:
>
> - fsync() no longer flushes the buffers to disk, but returns immediately
> instead;
This is really the only bad thing I can see here, what about introducing
a slight delay and seeing if one can coalesce the writes? Is this
part really needed? Making fsync() not work is a good way to make
any sort of userland based transactional system break badly.
otherwise, way cool!
-Alfred
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