--On Monday, October 06, 2003 14:26:10 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:50, Neil Conway wrote:
>> I was hoping you'd reply to this, Tom -- you were referring to O_DIRECT,
>> right?
>
> Not necessarily --- as you point out, it's not clear that O_DIRECT would
> help us. What would be way cool is something similar to what James
> Rogers was talking about: a way to tell the kernel not to promote this
> page all the way to the top of its LRU list. I'm not sure that *any*
> Unixen have such an API, let alone one that's common across more than
> one platform :-(
I think Verita's VxFS has this as an option/IOCTL.
You can read the Veritas doc on my
http://www.lerctr.org:8458/
pages under filesystems.
That should work on UnixWare and Solaris sites that have VxFS installed.
VxFS is standard on UW.
LER
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