[OpenAFS] Re: limit amount of uncommitted cache manager data?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:37:31 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Adam Megacz wrote:

>
> "Derrick Brashear" <shadow@gmail.com> writes:
>> it would involve a semantic change but we could start flushing changes in
>> the background before fsync. there are of course potential issues.
>
> Wouldn't it be the same semantics as if the client cache were rather small?

largely. but this forces the change for everyone.

> I can get the app to fsync(), though, so it looks like I'll go with that.

good.