| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Matthew N(dot) Dodd" <winter(at)jurai(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ... |
| Date: | 1998-04-12 05:57:53 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980412025701.292P-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> 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.
I hate to have to ask, but how is MMAP or AIO better then sfio? I
haven't had enough time to research any of this, and am just starting to
look at it...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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