On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:
> And if this storage manager would work with some amount of
> preallocated blocks, it would be totally happy with a
> fdatasync() instead of a fsync(). Some per tablespace
> configurable options like initial number of blocks, next
> extent size and percentage increase would be fine.
On Linux, fdatasync() does exactly the same as fsync(). On FreeBSD (3.4),
fdatasync() isn't even documented and I can't find it in any of the
include files either. What I'm saying is that for the vast majority of our
users this would most likely buy exactly nothing. I just wanted to point
that out, not dismiss the idea.
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