On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:30:02 +0000, Jamie Lokier
<lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:50:26PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> FWIW, we don't need to lock stuff for write.
> Don't we need to guarantee that O_APPEND writes are atomic?
Yes, but this is a special case: we don't need to make random access
writes within a database atomic.
--Stephen
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