On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:02:53 +0200 "Giampaolo Tomassoni" <giampa...@tomassoni.biz> wrote:
> However, since I like to win the last speech, my reply is that they > hopefully don't necessarily involve an fsync: most modern databases > use some kind of logging to store and write-back committed > units-of-work. This is OT, but if your database pretends to be "Durable" (the D part in ACID), it has to flush the write-ahead logs to disk, typically with an fsync() or fdatasync(). Regards, David.
