Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > Has anyone looked into this?  I'm just getting ready to download it and
> > play with it, see what's involved in using it.  From what I can see, its
> > essentially an optimized stdio library...
> >
> > URL is at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio
>
> Using mmap and/or AIO would be better...
>
> FreeBSD and Solaris support AIO I believe.  Given past trends Linux will
> as well.

    I hate to have to ask, but how is MMAP or AIO better then sfio?  I
haven't had enough time to research any of this, and am just starting to
look at it...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org