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Again, we don't need to sync indirects as we dirty them because
we run a commit if IS_SYNC(inode) prior to returning to the
caller of write(2).

Writing a 10 meg file in 0.1 meg chunks is sped up by, err,
a factor of fifty.  That's a best case.

--- linux-2.4.18-pre8/fs/ext3/inode.c	Tue Feb  5 00:33:05 2002
+++ linux-akpm/fs/ext3/inode.c	Wed Feb  6 23:40:48 2002
@@ -581,8 +581,6 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h
 			
 			parent = nr;
 		}
-		if (IS_SYNC(inode))
-			handle->h_sync = 1;
 	}
 	if (n == num)
 		return 0;


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