On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Greg Stark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
fsync everything in that pass.
Including the directory - which was not done before and actually might be
necessary in some cases.
Er. Yes. At least on ext4 this is pretty important. I wish it weren't,
but it doesn't look like we're going to convince the ext4 developers
they're crazy any day soon and it would really suck for a database
created from a template to have files in it go missin.
actually, as I understand it you need to do this on all filesystems except
ext3, and on ext3 fsync is horribly slow because it writes out
_everything_ that's pending, not just stuff related to the file you do the
fsync on.
David Lang
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