> Sounds quite unreliable to me. Unless there's some interlock ... like,
> say, the second sync not being able to advance past a buffer page that's
> as yet unwritten by the first sync. But would all Unixen share such a
> strange detail of implementation?
I heard Kirk McKusick tell this story
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Mikheev, Vadim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The idea is, that by the time the last sync has run, the
> >> first sync will be done flushing the buffers to disk. - this is what
> >> we were told by the IBM engineers when I worked tier-2/3 AIX support
>
"Mikheev, Vadim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The idea is, that by the time the last sync has run, the
>> first sync will be done flushing the buffers to disk. - this is what
>> we were told by the IBM engineers when I worked tier-2/3 AIX support
>> at IBM.
> I was told the same a long ago abo
