Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> Oracle uses it's own cache, so this shoud be OK on Linux.
>
> That's not the issue -- the issue is when Oracle writes to disk, it
> expects the data to hit the platters before the calls returns,
> without this you cannot ensure the data integrity.
>
> When it writes, it's no differnt than the buffer cache flushing
> dirty buffers in the background.
>
> Except it expects the writes to occur NOW and IN ORDER. Without this,
> recovery after a failure isn't possible.
So what's wrong with calling fsync() after write() then for Oracle --
this should work -- yes?
Jeff
>
> --cw
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