Re: [Ext2-devel] [patch 11/18] dirsync

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sun, 26 May 2002 14:48:40 -0700


"Peter J. Braam" wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I think this patch is actually pretty important - could we please have
> this, or something like this?
>

Well `-o sync' will give the same result. dirsync is just a speedup.

I should have mentioned: untarring a kernel tree with dirsync is 4x to
5x faster than `-o sync', but still tons slower (5x?) than default.
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