> The O_DIRECT flag has been added in FreeBSD 4.4 (386 & Alpha) also. From
> the release notes:
>
> Kernel Changes
>
> The O_DIRECT flag has been added to open(2) and fcntl(2). Specifying this
> flag for open files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading
> and writing.
I wonder if using this for WAL would be good.
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