Re: True ACID under linux (no fsync)?

I must have missed that one.  How do you turn off fsync()??
I have lots of batch loading to do during which ACID is of no use.

++ kevin



"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote:
>
> Strange.
>
> I did a test on Redhat Linux 7.0 with fsync() turned off and my
> batchfile of inserts ran 10 times as fast. But that was on an slow PC
> with a slow IDE harddrive.
>
> What Linux distribution and kernel version are you running?
>
> Poul L. Christiansen
>
> "Gary Howland (During daytime)" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quickie - I heard that linux does not have a working fsync() call
> > (it has no concept of raw devices).  In other words, fsync cannot be used
> > to ensure that data is on disk (try it with a floppy - it returns IMMEDIATELY!!! - long before the write finishes)
> >
> > This is for ALL linuxes.
> >
> > Does this mean that postgres is unrealiable (or non ACID-conforming) under linux?
> >
> > Gary
> >
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