linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes

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Message-ID: <20080519090401.GB2013@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 11:04:01 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	jamie@...reable.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (RESEND) ext3[34] barrier changes

Hi!

On Fri 2008-05-16 13:05:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:02:46 -0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > A collection of patches to make ext3 & 4 use barriers by
> > default, and to call blkdev_issue_flush on fsync if they
> > are enabled.
> 
> Last time this came up lots of workloads slowed down by 30% so I
> dropped the patches in horror.
> 
> I just don't think we can quietly go and slow everyone's machines down
> by this much.  The overhead of journalling is already pretty horrid.
> 
> If we were seeing a significant number of "hey, my disk got wrecked"
> reports which attributable to this then yes, perhaps we should change
> the default.  But I've never seen _any_, although I've seen claims that
> others have seen reports.

Do you remember seeing "my disk was wrecked" for reiserfs?

I believe I got some corruption, but it was 

a) long time ago

b) took half a year of hard powerdowns to provoke

c) I did not report it anywhere because ... it just was not
reproducible.

								Pavel
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