Re: Solaris tmpfs vs. Linux RAMdisk
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
On 15-Apr-99 Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> I'm also developing
> journaling for linux ext2. In each case, you will end up maintaining
> on-disk consistency, but making absolutely no promises to the
> application about what hits disk when. The only way you get that is
> to mount the disk synchronously or use fsync/O_SYNC etc.
I got the impression that you were planning on making synchronous writes put
data into the log, and thereby make it pretty fast compared to normal
synchronous writes. Is that still in the plan?
J
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