Re: [Firebird-devel] MaxFileSystemCache (Was: RFC: Look-ahead disk

[Fred P. <fps...@ya...>]

On 01/25/2007 05:14 PM, Alexander Klenin wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Vlad Horsun <hv...@us...> wrote:
>> PS To be precise - "not using file system cache" means
...
>>
>>     on posix        - i can't find exact equivalent and will use SYNC flag. so on posix
>>                             platform is will be the same as FW = ON
> 
> Perhaps this recent LKML thread will be of help?
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/233> 

Good pointer!!

How could I forget about posix_fadvise() and posix_fallocate()?!?!
Guess I need a vacation. :) :)

These calls should be more portable than the linux O_DIRECT flag; at
least for systems with POSIX ADVANCED REALTIME support.