Subject: Re: about untar performance on -current
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/13/2001 09:35:05
Hi, chuck.
Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
> however, the XXX comment you added isn't right. in the sync case we do need
> to flush the whole block to make sure it's all on disk. this will be true
> even when the current softdep interaction problem is fixed the right way.
Do you mean we need to flush past the `oldeof'?
I initially thought that it is enough to flush from beginning of file
system block (oldoef & ~(bsize - 1)) to end of current data on disk
(oldeof), but that makes softdep code panic and so I wrote the comment.
enami.