From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754577AbZHKMtI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:49:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754400AbZHKMtG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:49:06 -0400 Received: from mailhost13.gawab.com ([66.220.20.13]:42766 "HELO info15.gawab.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753729AbZHKMtB (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:49:01 -0400 X-Trusted: Whitelisted From: Al Boldi To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:49:20 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Linux Kernel Developers List , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org References: <1249934623-15939-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <1249934623-15939-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908110649.20277.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Ts'o wrote: > + "data=ordered" mode can also result in major performance > + problems, including seconds-long delays before an fsync() > + call returns. For details, see: > + > + http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext3_data_mode_tradeoffs Why isn't the fsync problem fixable? Thanks! -- Al