Re: RFC: svn_io_file_flush_to_disk

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 15:40, Branko Èibej wrote:
> >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.

> The docs insist that if you're writing large amounts of data
> sequentially, it's faster to disable caching entirely...which makes sense.

It doesn't make any sense to me. If I block on every write, I'm wasting
time I could be spending figuring out what to write next.

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Received on Sat May 1 21:56:59 2004