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That massive filesystem threadThat massive filesystem threadPosted Apr 1, 2009 22:38 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: That massive filesystem thread by man_ls Parent article: That massive filesystem thread
Just a few points, so please don't get offended. I apologise in advance to all sensitive LWN readers for any injury caused by this post.
> Why invent a new system call which cannot (by necessity) be honored by ext2, or ext4 without a journal?
Even if there was some kind of magical law that said that you could not order commits on the non-journaled file system this way, it can always be trivially implemented through - wait for it - fsync(), which has acceptable performance characteristics on such file systems.
> Everything is working now fine in ext3
Sure. Except fsync(), which locks the whole system for a few seconds. Hopefully, this will get fixed (or at least its effect reduced) as a result of the hoopla.
> Well, now that Ts'o's commit rights have been officially revoked I think that the whole discussion is moot.
Now you are really making a fool of yourself.
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