Re: Excessive (and slow) fsync() within single transaction

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Stephen Tyler <stephen@stephen-tyler.com> wrote:
> The times are apparently in milliseconds.  But that doesn't make any sense
> for the 7200rpm SATA HDD, given it has an 8.3ms rotation time.  And the
> numbers for the SSD are basically identical to the HDD, apart from the bare
> write timing.
>
> Do I conclude that the sync timings are all faked by the OS?

Actually, it's usually the drives that lie about fsync, especially
consumer grade (and some server grade) SATA / PATA drives are known
for this.