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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
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Chris Mason wrote:
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> If ext3 would promise to make fsync(file) sufficient forever, it might
> help the mta authors tune.

ext3 promises.  This side-effect is bolted firmly into the design
of ext3 and it's hard to see any way in which it will go away.

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