On 03.12.2010 21:55, Josh Berkus wrote:
All,
So, I've been doing some reading about this issue, and I think
regardless of what other changes we make we should never enable O_DIRECT
automatically on Linux, and it was a mistake for us to do so in the
first place.
First, in the Linux docs for open():
The quote on that man page is hilarious:
"The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that
the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by
a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances."
-- Linus
I agree we should not enable it by default. If it's faster on some
circumstances, the admin is free to do the research and enable it, but
defaults need to be safe above all.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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