Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:02:44 -0500 | From | Vladislav Bolkhovitin <> | Subject | Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers |
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杨苏立 Yang Su Li, on 11/15/2012 11:14 AM wrote: > 1. fsync actually does two things at the same time: ordering writes (in a > barrier-like manner), and forcing cached writes to disk. This makes it very > difficult to implement fsync efficiently.
Exactly!
> However, logically they are two distinctive functionalities
Exactly!
Those two points are exactly why concept of barriers must be forgotten for sake of productivity and be replaced by a finer grained abstractions as well as why they where removed from the Linux kernel
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