On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:25:36 +0200, Roch <Roch.Bourbonnais at Sun.COM> wrote:
> You tell me ? We have 2 issues > > can we make 'tar x' over direct attach, safe (fsync) > and posix compliant while staying close to current > performance characteristics ? In other words do we > have the posix leeway to extract files in parallel ? why fsync(3C) ? it is usually more heavy weight then opening the file with O_SYNC - and both provide POSIX synchronized file integrity completion. --- frankB