In general, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the place to ask questions
about ZFS issues.

There's a manual page for posix_fadvise(3C), but it's up to the
operating system to decide what to do with this kind of advice.

If you look at the source for posix_fadvise(3C), you'll see that this
doesn't result in any kind of syscall.  We're ignoring the advice for
now.

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/gen/posix_fadvise.c

-j

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Feng Tian wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I wonder if anyone can enlighten me on how ZFS handles posix_fadvise calls.  
> And if ZFS honors posix_fadvise, which is the rule of thumb of using it.  I 
> cannot found the much information on this topic.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> This message posted from opensolaris.org
> _______________________________________________
> perf-discuss mailing list
> perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
_______________________________________________
perf-discuss mailing list
perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Reply via email to