Re: [PATCH] Enable core.fsyncObjectFiles by default

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2015, 01:07 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AZ7TOqZLKUD=tVaBVMH4af_jg42Y04ZryQ9dhTSoGu5A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1435096643-18159-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds started a discussion[1] if we want to play rather safe
> than use defaults which make sense only for the most power users of Git:
>
>> So git is "safe" in the sense that you won't really lose any data,
>> but you may well be inconvenienced.  The "fsync each object" config
>> option is there in case you don't want that inconvenience, but it
>> should be noted that it can make for a hell of a performance impact.
>
>> Of course, it might well be the case that the actual default
>> might be worth turning around. Most git users probably don't
>> care about that kind of "apply two hundred patches from Andrew
>> Morton" kind of workload, although "rebase a big patch-series"
>> does end up doing basically the same thing, and might be more
>> common.
>
> This patch enables fsync_object_files by default.

Will this make nfs performance a lot worse or still within acceptable range?

-- 
Duy