[ZODB-Dev] Use of fsync in FileStorage

[Dieter Maurer]

Tim Peters wrote at 2004-7-29 23:07 -0400:
> ...
>I'm most interested in the first kind of system, "server-class"
>configurations.  Serious users with heavy loads run those, and they probably
>have the most to lose if the database goes bad.  If it's generally true that
>fsyncs really don't hurt them much, that makes a tempting default.

I will make the test next week (probably Wednesday/Thursday)
on our Sparc/Solaris backend cluster.

I am looking forward to learn whether "fsync" on Solaris and
server class hardware still has the catastrophic timing
behaviour we observed several years ago.

-- 
Dieter