Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 17:04:57 EST


On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 09:03:48PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Well, using data journalling with ext3/4 may do what you want. If you
> > don't do any fsync, the changes will get written every 5 seconds when
> > the automatic journal sync happens (and sub-4k writes will also get
>
> Hmm. But that would need setting journalling mode per-file, no?
>
> Like, make it journal data for all the databases, but keep normal mode
> for rest of system...

You can do that, using "chattr +j file.db". It's apparently not a
well known feature of ext3/4....

- Ted
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