Hi, On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 20:34, Chris Mason wrote: > The bulk of the sync(2) will be async though, since most of the io is > actually writing dirty data buffers out. We already do that in two > stages. Not with data journaling. That's the whole point: the VFS assumes too much about where the data is being written, when. > For 2.5, if an FS really wanted a two stage sync for it's non-data > pages But it's data that is the problem. For sync() semantics, data-journaling only requires that the pages have hit the journal. For umount, it is critical that we complete the final writeback before destroying the inode lists. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
