Fixing fsync

[neuron]

For quite a long time now, misuse of fsync has annoyed me, especially since I use ext3, and fsync'ing on ext3 fsync's the whole damn filesystem, but it's been extremely annoying since firefox3 using sqlite and sync'ing like mad.

Kernel bug on the subject : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9546 (I'm using data=journaled now, but that's far from optimal aswell).
Mozilla bug, sqlite misuse : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
KDE bug : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142462
Pidgin bug : http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5597

Now there's a few ways to solve this, none of them are optimal.

A : Switch to data=journal'ed, fixing some latency issues, but lowering performance considerably, and it doesn't exactly fix the programs either.
B : Change filesystem to something that atleast deals with fsync in a nicer way, of course a possibility, the misuse will still be there but atleast it wont hurt as badly as it does on ext3.
C : Hack the programs that do it the most, optimal but work intensive.
D : http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ which isn't exactly safe, but atleast "fixes" the problem.

Now I know I'm not the only one annoyed at io latency, has anyone fixed this in a different way/worked around it/got any different ideas on how to solve it?

[NeddySeagoon]

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Other Things Gentoo.

Its not a gentoo specific topic and OTW is a bit harsh
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