Bruce Momjian wrote:
>I have been poking around with our fsync default options to see if I can
>improve them. One issue is that we never default to O_SYNC, but default
>to O_DSYNC if it exists, which seems strange.
>
>What I did was to beef up my test program and get it into CVS for folks
>to run. What I found was that different operating systems have
>different optimal defaults. On BSD/OS and FreeBSD, fdatasync/fsync was
>better, but on Linux, O_DSYNC/O_SYNC was faster.
>
>[snip]
>
>Linux 2.4.9:
>
>
This is a pretty old kernel (I am writing from a machine running 2.4.22)
Maybe before we do this for Linux testing on a more modern kernel might
be wise.
cheers
andrew
