Re: the thing with the binary zeroes

[David J N Begley <d.begley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> The only good "fix" probably would be to make XFS flush metadata less
> aggressively. If the metadata was always flushed at roughly the same time
> as  the file data is written you would rarely see this.

Are you talking here about implementing an "ordered journal" (similar to ext3)
where data is written before metadata updates, or simply reducing the time
between data/metadata flushes without imposing any ordering?

Thanks..