Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 02.33 schrieb reiser:
> There is also a longer PhD thesis by her. 10 minutes is about as much
> work as I personally am willing to lose and try to remember. Avoiding
> 75% of writes instead of 20% is a substantial performance gain worth
> paying a cost for. Unfortunately it is not easy to say if it is worth
> that much cost, but I suspect it is. An approach we are exploring is
> for blocks to reach disk earlier than that if the device is not
> congested, on the grounds that if not much IO is occuring, then
> performance is not important.
Assuming your 10 minutes are just a default and tunable by sysctl I
hardly can see any problems at all. Paranoid people can set it to
make any tradeoff between performance and speed they'd like including
setting it to 0, no?
--
Servus,
Daniel
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