Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
