Re: Weird XFS WAL problem

Scott Marlowe  wrote:
 
> I think it's a case of the quickest, simplest answer to semi-new
> tech.  Not sure what to do with barriers?  Just flush the whole
> cache.
> 
> I'm guessing that this will get optimized in the future.
 
Let's hope so.
 
That reminds me, the write barrier concept is at least on the
horizon as a viable technology; does anyone know if the asynchronous
graphs concept in this (one page) paper ever came to anything?  (I
haven't hear anything about it lately.)
 
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast05/wips/burnett.pdf
 
-Kevin