Chris Mason wrote:
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> Running fsync in data=ordered means that all of the dirty blocks on the FS
> will get written before fsync returns.

Hm, that's strange, I expected this kind of behaviour from data=journal.

data=writeback should return immediatly, which seems it does, but 
data=ordered should only wait for metadata flush, it shouldn't wait for 
filedata flush.  Are you sure it waits for both?


Thanks!

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Al

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