Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> Again: Please quote the standard instead of crying. Your view of things
> disallows many of the recent improvements in filesystems, so you have to
> show evidence. All the databases and other reliable data handing tools
> uses fsync since a long time, because the writes may or may not hit the
> disk otherwise.

If the durable guarantee isn't necessary, fsync isn't the fastest way, right?

Olaf