Re: status of the 'null' issue

[Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>]

Just beautiful. Thanks!

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 17:54, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 17:48, Matthijs van der Klip wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Could someone tell me what the status of the 'null' issue is?:
> > 
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
> > 
> > 
> > Has any solution or workaround been developed yet? Can we expect a
> > solution in the next official release?
> > 
> 
> The 2.4.18 kernel in cvs and the patches has some code which removes
> the synchronous transactions from xfs. For the most part these tended
> to be the culprit in that an inode size update was forced out into
> the log long before the data was.
> 
> So, while it is still possible, it is less likely than it was.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Steve Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
> Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@sgi.com
-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@coremetrics.com

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb