Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965025AbWHOMk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:40:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932779AbWHOMk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:40:57 -0400 Received: from alpha.polcom.net ([83.143.162.52]:24499 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932776AbWHOMk4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:40:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:40:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrzej Szymanski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange write starvation on 2.6.17 (and other) kernels In-Reply-To: <20060815005025.22e8adfe.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <44E0A69C.5030103@agh.edu.pl> <20060815005025.22e8adfe.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 562 Lines: 19 On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > Which filesystem? > > If ext3 in ordered-data mode: any fsync() will sync the whole filesystem > (it has to). Could you explain some more why it has to?... Is this caused by design of ext3 or any filesystem in ordered-data mode has to do it? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/