On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:08:48AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> I'm not really happy with this. IMHO this should be the default behavior of
> fsync(). A programmer using fsync in his software uses it to make use data
> is on stable storage.

The problem is that syncing 1K of data from one file could cause an
entire 8MB cache to be written back (in fact, on an IDE disk, *will*
cause that).  Some applications "defensively" call fsync on every write;
think what that will do to overall system performance.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

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