From: Rob Banz (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2007 - 16:01:20 EST
On Nov 20, 2007, at 14:57, Pascal Gienger wrote:
> Rob Banz <> wrote:
>
>>
>> We went through a similar discussion last year in OpenAFS land, and
>> came the same conclusion -- basically, if your filesystem is
>> reasonably reliable (such as ZFS is), and you can trust your
>> underlying storage not to lose transactions that are in-cache
>> during a
>> 'bad event', the added benefit of fsync() may be less than its
>> performance cost.
>
> Would'nt it be nice to have a configuration option to completely
> turn off fsync() in Cyrus? If you want, with a BIG WARNING in the
> doc stating NOT TO USE IT unless you know what you doing. :)
That's basically what we did with the AFS volserver & fileserver.
Oddly, when the patch got integrated into the OpenAFS code, they
didn't like the idea of it being an option and made it the default ;)
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