Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ext3: per-process soft-syncing data=ordered mode | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:27:50 +0300 |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0300, Al Boldi said: > > This RFC proposes to introduce a tunable which allows to disable fsync > > and changes ordered into writeback writeout on a per-process basis like > > this: : : > But if you want to give them enough rope to shoot themselves in the foot > with, I'd suggest abusing LD_PRELOAD to replace the fsync() glibc code > instead. No need to clutter the kernel with rope that can be (and has > been) done in userspace.
Ok that's possible, but as you cannot use LD_PRELOAD to deal with changing ordered into writeback mode, we might as well allow them to disable fsync here, because it is in the same use-case.
Thanks!
-- Al
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