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Re: [PATCH] fsfs: flush proto rev files (issue #3705)

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:46:34 +0200

Blair Zajac wrote on Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 01:15:52 -0800:
> On 1/8/11 2:44 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:34:01AM +1100, Gavin Beau Baumanis wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>> Being a non SVN dev I am certainly not in a position to review your patch..
>>> But being a developer, none the less, that prescribes to Test Driven Development I have to say,
>>> Why Fight it?
>>>
>>> Occam's razor?
>>
>> We don't know how to reproduce the issue #3705 problem.
>> So we cannot write a test for it.
>> Until we have a way to reproduce the only things we can do are
>> shooting into the dark or leaving the problem alone.
>
> +1 for leaving the code alone.
>
> Personally, I'm running svn in a high commit rate environment (5+ commits
> per second) and any additional IO would just slow us down. So unless we
> can show this is a fix, I suggest leaving it out.
>

Fair enough. I was also reminded offlist that disabling flushing is not
the fix but only a workaround, and that the real problem is that file
handles are left unclosed, get recycled, etc.

I'll get back to the drawing board --- thanks everyone for the sanity check.

> Blair
Received on 2011-01-10 04:50:16 CET

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