Re: XFS and filesytem shutdown (was: Red Hat Linux 9 XFS DVD Released)

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:43:40PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>
> > I think the problem it when the files are copied to /boot/grub and not 
> > necessarily
> > when grub is installed.
> > I still thing the best it to do a remount,ro then a remount,rw
> > the remount read only code has special code to sync the fs.
>
> I still wonder what is different at install time vs later. Why doesn't the XFS
> /boot cope with that correctly, and why should XFS later do the right thing
> with /usr /home etc.?
>
> I don't want to sound negative, I like to use XFS, but this makes me feel very
> uncomfortable. :(
I get the same feeling - Why doesn't the filesystem push data and 
metadata to disk when it gets a sync? It surely can't be a "performance"
thing?

// Stefan