Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:25:07 +0100
From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       "Andreas T.Auer" <andreas.t.auer_lkml_73537@ursus.ath.cx>,
       Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ext4 and the "30 second window of death"
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:21:43PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> 
> Some guy named Andrew used to run a kernel with 'return 0' at the top
> of fsync and fdatasync: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/88

(Quoting out of context from Andrew's mail)

"hm, fsync.

Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so
important that they need to fsync it all the time."

So the advice/complaint is that apps shouldn't fsync unless absolutely
necessary because syncing will always slow?

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