On Thursday 10 March 2011 20:31:30 Sage Weil wrote: > It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all > mounted file systems via sync(2): > > - On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of > them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server). sync(2) will get stuck on > those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /). > - Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then > want to make sure it is flushed to disk. Calling fsync(2) on each > file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large > amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file > system. > > ... > Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <[email protected]>
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