On 17 Feb 2001 at 17:56 (-0500), Tom Lane wrote:
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| Is anyone out there running a 2.4 Linux kernel? Would you try pgbench
| with current sources, commit_delay=0, -B at least 1024, no -F, and see
| how the results change when pg_fsync is made to call fdatasync instead
| of fsync? (It's in src/backend/storage/file/fd.c)
I've not run this requested test, but glibc-2.2 provides this bit
of code for fdatasync, so it /appears/ to me that kernel version
will not affect the test case.
[glibc-2.2/sysdeps/generic/fdatasync.c]
int fdatasync (int fildes) { return fsync (fildes); }
hth. brent
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