>> I had idea to name old default as FSYNC, but it would be too scientific.
So, then it can be  FSYNC, SYNC, BACKGROUND and NONE!

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Pavlov <dpavlov....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I had idea to name old default as FSYNC, but it would be too scientific.
> >
>
> I like FSYNC, I do not think it is too scientific. Definitely not more
> scientific than LOG_ONLY.
>
> For old DEFAULT, STRICT or STRICT_SYNC - IMO are best options, so I agree
> > with Ivan.
> >
>
> Not sure I like STRICT. In Linux world, fsync is a well known command which
> does exactly what our FSYNC mode will do:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fsync.2.html . STRICT, on the other
> hand, is not a commonly understood term. Why create a new term to define
> something that has already been defined?
>
> Also, what if tomorrow we need to add an even stricter parameter? Then we
> are back to the same problem we are trying to fix right now.
>
> D.
>

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