On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > In this case the problem is that we want to tell the OS "Hey, if this > > stuff is actually going to go out to the spindles then compress it. And > > by the way, we won't be doing any random access on it, either." But > > AFAIK there's no option like that in fopen... :) > > posix_fadvise(). We don't use it and many OSes don't support it, but it > is there.
There's an fadvise that tells the OS to compress the data if it actually makes it to disk? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
