From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Patrick Fritzsch <fritzsch@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slow sync of fat 32 hotplugged devices
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:38:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051217123803.82b3d8d5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43A1B5B9.2040307@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Patrick Fritzsch <fritzsch@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
> Wouldnt it be a nice behaviour, if you could mount a file in a new sync
> mode, where it isnt synchronized during writing a file, only when a
> close ioctl command was executed on a filehandle?
> sync writing to hotplugged devices would be a lot faster then.
Yeah, this was discussed recently: `mount -o flush'. It'll sync each file
on the final close(). I forget who was doing that, but it's gone quiet
lately.
It's not completely trivial - some work in each fs will be needed to check
that we sync everything which should be sunc. Such as the superblock...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-17 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-15 18:28 Patrick Fritzsch
2005-12-15 18:35 ` Greg KH
2005-12-17 20:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
[not found] <5k61N-oO-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-16 5:48 ` Bodo Eggert
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