Re: RFC: svn_io_file_flush_to_disk

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 09:56, Branko Èibej wrote:
> Of course, on Windows it would be much better if APR knew how to open
> the file with FILE_FLAG_WRITETHROUGH...perhaps another flag to
> apr_file_open that would cause apr_file_close to call fsync on Unix, but
> open the file in writethrough mode on Windows?

Is that really best? That sounds like the analog of calling fsync()
after every buffer flush on Unix; given that we're writing a potentially
large file, that seems much less efficient than syncing once at the end.

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Received on Sat May 1 17:55:58 2004