On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:30:36PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > Thanks. But I'm specifically *not* talking about database apps, I'm > talking about non-database applications written in languages that > don't even have a concept of fsync. I get it. You want a pony, and you don't want to pay anything for it. Any language is fundamentally broken if it has no concept and/or method for ensuring data integrity for data that is written through it. If you have such a language and you need data integrity then your only filesystem option for guaranteeing no data loss is synchronous writes and metadata updates. XFS allows you to minimise the impact of such legacy languages and applications to just the data sets those applications use through the use of 'chattr -S' and the /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfs_inherit_sync sysctl.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
