[adding Chris to the Cc list - this is about the awful ext3 data=ordered
behavior of syncing the whole file system data and metadata on each
fsync]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Well, let's be fair; this is something *ext3* got wrong, and it was
the default file system back them.

I'm pretty sure reiserfs and btrfs did too..

I'm pretty sure btrfs never did, and reiserfs at least looks like
it currently doesn't but I'd have to dig into history to check if
it ever did.