Re: fsync vs open_sync

Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote:

>     22 KB files, 1000 of them :
>     open(), read(), close() : 10.000 files/s
>     open(), write(), close() : 4.000 files/s
>
>     This is quite far from database FS activity, but it's still
> amazing,  although the disk doesn't even get used. Which is what I like
> in Linux.  You can write 10000 files in one second and the HDD is still
> idle... then  when it decides to flush it all goes to disk in one burst.

You can not trust your data in this.


>     I've had my computers shutdown violently by power failures and no
> reiserfs problems so far. NTFS is very crash proof too. My windows
> machine  bluescreens twice a day and still no data loss ;)

If you have the BSOD twice a day then you have a broken driver or broken
HW. CPU overclocked ?


I understood from your email that you are a Windows haters, try to post
something here:

http://ihatelinux.blogspot.com/

:-)


Regards
Gaetano Mendola