Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: >> Tracking fds is going to be easier, at that point dpkg already has >> the stat information, so it could queue an fd per unique st_dev for >> example. > > That sounds like a good plan. How hard would it be to implement this > based on FDs inst

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover writes: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 01:41:19 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Guillem Jover wrote: >> > Unfortunately that patch does not seem much appealing, it's Linux only, >> > not even in mainline, and it would need for dpkg to track on which file >> > system each file is located a

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:01:15 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 07:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:31:20 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Just got this from Christoph Helwig: > > > > > > 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg re

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 07:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:31:20 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Just got this from Christoph Helwig: > > > > 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg review and ack > > the > > per-fs sync ioct

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 01:41:19 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Unfortunately that patch does not seem much appealing, it's Linux only, > > not even in mainline, and it would need for dpkg to track on which file > > system each file is located and issue such ioctl once per f

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Guillem, Guillem Jover wrote: > Unfortunately that patch does not seem much appealing, it's Linux only, > not even in mainline, and it would need for dpkg to track on which file > system each file is located and issue such ioctl once per file system. > > I'd rather not complicate the dpkg sour

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Ben! On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:31:20 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Just got this from Christoph Helwig: > > 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg review and ack > the > per-fs sync ioctl path that sage weil sent out a couple of weeks > ago > 1

The fsync issue

2010-11-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
Just got this from Christoph Helwig: 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg review and ack the per-fs sync ioctl path that sage weil sent out a couple of weeks ago 13:24 < hch> bwh: and report the ext4 fsync issues to the list, I know ext4