Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Those of us, who did (without UPS), will never do it again.
>
> Before or after the change to make renaming on top of old files do the
> IO flushing?

It was long ago, so before patch.

> That made a big difference for some rather common cases.

That's good.
Maybe, it's only an order of magnitude likely to lose FS now instead of several.
:-)
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