Re: Ext4 and the "30 second window of death"

[Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>]

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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