Re: Background writer process

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:35:31PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> For sure the sync() needs to be replaced by the discussed fsync() of 
> recently written files. And I think the algorithm how much and how often 
> to flush can be significantly improved. But after all, this does not 
> change the real checkpointing at all, and the general framework having a 
> separate process is what we probably want.

Why is the sync() needed at all?  My understanding was that it
was only needed in case of a checkpoint.


Kurt