Re: [HACKERS] Why O_SYNC is faster than fsync on ext3

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce, haven't followed the thread completely. Accessing the web archive > is slow from Hong Kong but I just wanted to point you to this lkml post > which shows why O_SYNC is much faster than fsync (at least on ext3) > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=

Re: [HACKERS] Why O_SYNC is faster than fsync on ext3

2004-03-21 Thread Manfred Spraul
Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: I sent this to Bruce but forgot to cc pgsql-hackers, The patches are likely to go into 2.6.6. People interested in extremely safe fsync writes should also follow the IDE barrier thread and the true fsync() in Linux on IDE thread Actually the most interesting part of the

[HACKERS] Why O_SYNC is faster than fsync on ext3

2004-03-20 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
I sent this to Bruce but forgot to cc pgsql-hackers, The patches are likely to go into 2.6.6. People interested in extremely safe fsync writes should also follow the IDE barrier thread and the true fsync() in Linux on IDE thread - Forwarded message from Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --