Well, an article on write barriers published in May 2007 can't contradict the statement that barriers don't exist these days. :)
Pavel On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Black, Michael (IS) <[email protected]> wrote: > There isn't???? Somebody sure wasted their time on this article then... > http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/78/Write_Barriers.pdf > > Michael D. Black > Senior Scientist > Advanced Analytics Directorate > Advanced GEOINT Solutions Operating Unit > Northrop Grumman Information Systems > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Christoph Hellwig [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:41 PM > To: ????????? Yang Su Li > Cc: [email protected]; General Discussion of SQLite Database; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:32:27AM -0500, ????????? Yang Su Li wrote: >> I am not quite whether I should ask this question here, but in terms >> of light weight barrier/fsync, could anyone tell me why the device >> driver / OS provide the barrier interface other than some other >> abstractions anyway? I am sorry if this sounds like a stupid questions >> or it has been discussed before.... > > It does not. Except for the legacy mount option naming there is no such > thing as a barrier in Linux these days. > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
