Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:14:26 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29
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> Agreed, we need a middle ground.  We need a transition path that
> recognizes that ext3 won't be the dominant filesystem for Linux in
> perpetuity, and that ext3's data=ordered semantics will someday no
> longer be a major factor in application design.  fbarrier() semantics
> might be one approach; there may be others.  It's something we need to
> figure out.

Would making close imply fbarrier() rather than fsync() work for this ?
That would give people the ordering they want even if they are less
careful but wouldn't give the media error cases - which are less
interesting.

Alan
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