Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ...

From: "Matthew N(dot) Dodd" <winter(at)jurai(dot)net>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ...
Date: 1998-04-12 05:41:31
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.3.96.980412014020.1796L-100000@sasami.jurai.net
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Has anyone looked into this? I'm just getting ready to download it and
> play with it, see what's involved in using it. From what I can see, its
> essentially an optimized stdio library...
>
> URL is at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio

Using mmap and/or AIO would be better...

FreeBSD and Solaris support AIO I believe. Given past trends Linux will
as well.

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