Hi -- On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:32:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] Side note: a lot of systems make "fsync()" pretty expensive > too. It's one of my main disagreements with most log-based > filesystems - fsync() can in theory be fast, but almost always > implies flushing the whole log, even if 99.9% of that log is totally > unrelated to the actual file you want to fsync(). [...] The scenario where I ran into this was different: a usb-drive filesystem was busy running receiving backups, collecting, oh, several GB of dirty data, while git was working on a normal local disk on a separate filesystem. The system-wide git sync unnecessarily blocked on the usb filesystem too. - FChE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
