LWN.net Logo

Async I/O

Async I/O

Posted Apr 8, 2009 4:55 UTC (Wed) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: Async I/O by jamesh
Parent article: Linux Storage and Filesystem workshop, day 1

Of course using aio_fsync has lots of other problems...complexity and
overhead mostly. Either way, the rename is atomic and immediately visible
to all user process. What it isn't is necessarily durable, or safe.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds