[OpenAFS-devel] Patch to disable fsync()ing

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:33:17 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Robert Banz wrote:
>
>> 
>> The following patch adds the options "-nofsync" to the namei-based 
>> fileserver and volserver, disabling fsync() operations.
>> 
>> For the volserver, local tests have shown that this speeds up volume moves 
>> significantly.
>
> If it's like the one Rainer sent it also breaks things. Ask Harald Barth.
>
> That other patch is already being tracked in RT. I don't remember the number 
> and I can't easily check right now

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