Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > 
> > The problem being that unlike the ratio, there's no sane default value 
> > that you can at least argue is not _entirely_ pointless.
> 
> Well, if the maximum time that someone wants to wait for an fsync() to
> return is one second, and the RAID array can write 100MB/sec

How are you going to tell the kernel that the RAID array can write 
100MB/s?

The kernel has no idea.

			Linus
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