Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932433AbWAKSVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:21:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932445AbWAKSVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:21:25 -0500 Received: from outgoing.tpinternet.pl ([193.110.120.20]:33578 "EHLO outgoing.tpinternet.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932435AbWAKSVY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:21:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060111181252.61498.qmail@web34103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060111181252.61498.qmail@web34103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: linux kernel Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: Is user-space AIO dead? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:20:23 +0100 To: Kenny Simpson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 479 Lines: 13 On 2006-01-11, at 19:12, Kenny Simpson wrote: > If I want a transactional engine (like a database) that needs to > persist to stable storage, is it > still best to use a helper thread to do write/fsync or O_SYNC| > O_DIRECT? Yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/