Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: File writes with O_SYNC slow
From: Benjamin C.R. LaHaise (blah_AT_kvack.org)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 20:08:04 EEST
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Karl JH Millar wrote:
> Furthermore, doing a write and then a fsync should be *just* as slow as a
> synchronous write, but I'm measuring it as over 10 times faster.
Doing synchronous writes involves synching metadata for every 4KB of data,
not the entire 256KB chunk.
-ben
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