From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:42:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] enable core.fsyncObjectFiles by default Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87efmohy8s.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > Or does overall FS activity and raw throughput (e.g. with an ISO copy) > matter more than general FS contention? Traditionally, yes. Also note that none of this is about "throughput". It's about waiting for a second or two when you do a simple "git commit" or similar. Also, hardware has changed. I haven't used a rotational disk in about 10 years now, and I don't worry about latencies so much more. The fact that you get ~100k iops indicates that you probably aren't using those stupid platters of rust either. So I doubt you can even trigger the bad cases. Linus