On Oct 18, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Tristan Verniquet <tris_v...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to work with large (1-10G) files in memory but eventually sync them > back out to disk. The problem is that the sync process appears to lock the > file in kernel for the duration of the sync, which can run into minutes. This > prevents other processes from reading from the file (unless they already have > it mapped) for this whole time. Is there any way to prevent this? I think I > read in a post somewhere about openbsd implementing partial-writes when it > hits a file with lots of dirty pages in order to prevent this. Is there > anything available for FreeBSD or is there another way around it? > > Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Isn't msync(2) what you are looking for? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
