> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 16:27 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > So perhaps the best argument for not making this be a tunable is that > > in the long run, we will need to put in a better algorithm for > > controlling how much writeback we want to do before we start > > saturating RAID arrays, and in that new algorithm this tunable may no > > longer make sense. Fine; at that point, we can make it go away. For > > now, though, it seems to be the best way to tweak what is going on, > > since I doubt we'll be able to come up with one magic number that will > > satisfy everyone. Also, what is the incentive to actually improve the situation once we merge this? People will say, turn the knob and don't bother us. -- 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
