Jan Wieck wrote:
> Then again, the stats file is only written. There is nothing that
> actually forces the blocks out. On a busy system, one individual stats
> file will be created, written to, renamed, live for 500ms and be
> thrown away by the next stat files rename operation. I would assume
> that with a decent filesystem and appropriate OS buffers, none of the
> data blocks of most stat files even hit the disk. I must be missing
> something.
(From someone who is at best semi-informed).. Unless battery-backed
cache is available, we are advised to run with fsync enabled. Wouldn't
that affect the stats files as well?
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Guy Rouillier
