Chris Mason wrote: > Running fsync in data=ordered means that all of the dirty blocks on the FS > will get written before fsync returns.
Hm, that's strange, I expected this kind of behaviour from data=journal. data=writeback should return immediatly, which seems it does, but data=ordered should only wait for metadata flush, it shouldn't wait for filedata flush. Are you sure it waits for both? Thanks! -- Al -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/