On Thu 2012-10-25 14:29:48, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:03:13AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I agree, this is why I'm trying to figure out the recommended way to > > do this without needing to do full commits. > > > > Since in most cases it's acceptable to loose the last few chunks > > written, if we had some way of specifying ordering, without having > > to specify "write this NOW", the solution would be pretty obvious. > > Well, using data journalling with ext3/4 may do what you want. If you > don't do any fsync, the changes will get written every 5 seconds when > the automatic journal sync happens (and sub-4k writes will also get Hmm. But that would need setting journalling mode per-file, no? Like, make it journal data for all the databases, but keep normal mode for rest of system... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
