Re: [RFC] [PATCH] vfs: Call filesystem callback when backing device caches should be flushed

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Jan Kara wrote:
>   Finally, I prefer maintainers of the filesystems themselves to decide
> whether their filesystem needs flushing and thus knowingly impose this
> performance penalty on them...

It could of course be a generic mount option which works with all
filesystems.

Then *administrators* can decide whether their data needs flushing,
which is where the decision should lie...

I'd vote for enabling it by default, but it's ok if it isn't.  Apps
where users expect integrity can warn if they see the option is disabled.

-- Jamie
--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Ext4 Filesystem]     [Union Filesystem]     [Filesystem Testing]     [Ceph Users]     [Ecryptfs]     [AutoFS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux Cachefs]     [Reiser Filesystem]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [CEPH Development]
  Powered by Linux