Re: Syncing a file's metadata in a portable way

[bert hubert]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:14:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> If only the one file has been written to, an fsync on ext3 shouldn't
> produce any more writeout than an fsync on ext2.
(...)
> Either that, or SQLite is broken.

I'll show strace and vmstat tomorrow - I found very little writes, no mmap,
some fsync and massive writeouts. On ext2, performance was two orders of
magnitude better.

	Bert

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