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This is a regression

Posted Mar 15, 2009 12:20 UTC (Sun) by alexl (subscriber, #19068)
In reply to: This is a regression by bojan
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> 1. By default make ext3 ordered mode have fsync as a no-op. People that want current broken behaviour could specify a mount option to get it.

Are you crazy? That would break ACID guarantees for all databases, etc.
fsync() is about much more than data-before-metadata.

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Posted Mar 15, 2009 21:28 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> Are you crazy?

Close to it ;-)

I admit, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek, to point out that current ext3 "lock up on fsync" behaviour is total nonsense.

This is a regression

Posted Mar 16, 2009 14:09 UTC (Mon) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

> That would break ACID guarantees for all databases, etc.

Once I had MySQL running on an XFS filesystem, and the system has hanged for some reason. The database got broken so horribly I had to restore it from backups. I wouldn't really count on any 'ACID guarantees' here :) An UPS and a ventilated dust-free environment is our only ACID guarantee :)

This is a regression

Posted Mar 17, 2009 5:41 UTC (Tue) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]

Note that mysql isn't always acid compliant and clearly states that fact, eg, when using myisam tables. Converting to innodb should fix that for you. If you were running innodb tables... then shut me up! Hehe never done any testing of this myself. Which storage engine are you using?

This is a regression

Posted Mar 17, 2009 11:59 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Yep, it was myisam.