On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 03:31:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
Sure, everything can break and most will sometime, but does this happen often enough that you'd want to slow down all of your network disk writes by an order of magnitude on the odd chance that some app really cares about a random write that it didn't bother to fsync?
For some applications, yes, that is exactly what I would want to do. It depends upon whether performance is more or less important than reliability.