improving concurrency/performance (fwd)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
>  Does this mean that those of us using XFS should run some testing as well?

Yes, XFS doesn't journal data in any way, AFAIK.  I don't know how one could
go about speeding up fsyncs() with it.

What I *do* know is that I don't trust spools to XFS, because anything not
fsync()'ed upon crash WILL be lost, but the metadata will likely be there
and it is a total bitch to find out what has been damaged.  You will have to
hunt the entire fs over for files containing while blocks of NULs.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh