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