On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Cord MacLeod <cordmacl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm a new Cassandra and Java user so I'm still trying to get my head around a > few things. If you've disabled swap on a machine what is the reason to use > JNA?
Faster snapshots, giving hints to the page cache with fadvise. > A second question is doesn't JNA break the Java inherent security mechanisms > by allowing access to direct system calls outside of the JVM? Are there any > concerns around this? We're not trying to sandbox anything here; there's lots of places where we explicitly allow arbitrary Java code to be injected into Cassandra. You don't need native code to do dangerous things with that! -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
