Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:00:16 -0400 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ext3 and SPEC SFS Run rules. |
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On Jul 26, 2004 10:18 +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I think the important part of rule 1. saying "server adheres to the > protocol" is this bit from rfc1813: > > The following data modifying procedures are > synchronous: WRITE (with stable flag set to FILE_SYNC), CREATE, > MKDIR, SYMLINK, MKNOD, REMOVE, RMDIR, RENAME, LINK, and COMMIT. > > E.g. if a client had a successful SYMLINK and the server crashed, the > client is not going to discover on the next reboot (of the server) that > the symlink is somehow disappeared...
Just an FYI - if you are running a heavy sync load like a sync NFS server you may want to consider running a large external journal for performance. This means your journal data writes are always sequential and to a different disk than the main filesystem.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/
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