From b442f00957395ba59112d4d0e0eb4f71708d811b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Somers Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:07:08 +0000 Subject: Speed up pw operations that edit /etc/group or /etc/passwd r285050 fixed a bug in pw that could lead to /etc/passwd or /etc/group corruption on power loss. However, it fixed it by opening those files with O_SYNC, which is very slow, especially on ZFS. This change replaces O_SYNC with appropriately placed fsync()s instead, which is much faster. Using a ZFS tmpdir, the time to run pw's kyua tests drops from 245s to 35s. Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, vangyzen, garga Tested on pfSense by: garga MFC after: 4 weeks Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8319 --- pw/grupd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'pw/grupd.c') diff --git a/pw/grupd.c b/pw/grupd.c index 38d5e5b..5d0df02 100644 --- a/pw/grupd.c +++ b/pw/grupd.c @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ gr_update(struct group * grp, char const * group) close(tfd); err(1, "gr_copy()"); } + fsync(tfd); close(tfd); if (gr_mkdb() == -1) { gr_fini(); -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451