[Users] [Bug 2711] unclear metadata configuration option

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--- Comment #1 from Andrej Kacian  2012-07-25 12:00:04 ---
The "Safer" option causes lot of fsync() calls to make sure everything in
filesystem cache is really written to storage as soon as possible. This can
cause performance degradation (disk thrashing) on some setups, as compared to
"Faster" option, which is arguably less safe, but leaves the filesystem
synchronization to underlying OS.

Usefulness of manual fsync() calls has been a hotly debated topic few years
back, therefore this config option has been implemented, so user can decide for
themselves.

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