On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:23:42AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > [Hopefully sent to the right place this time ...] > > This patch allows users of the ext2fs library to avoid doing an fsync > on close (obviously this is optional, and doesn't affect existing callers). > > Where this helps us is when constructing a throwaway ext2 filesystem > just to boot a virtual machine. By avoiding the 2 x fsync, we save > over 5 seconds and many many unnecessary disk writes. Added to the e2fsprogs next branch, thanks. It will be part of the e2fsprogs 1.42 release. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
