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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD database server questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008150833410.27583-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008151442390.32418-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Max Khon wrote:

> > Also, what about softupdates? As I understand it, softupdates is like
> > async writes except the writes are re-ordered so as to prevent the disk
> > from ever being left in a corrupt state. Is it possible for this
> > delaying and re-ordering to interfere with a RDBMS's ACIDity? Should I
> > stick with sync writes for the RDBMS space?
> 
> no, no

  Actualy, softupdates are irrelevant for an RDMS.  Softupdates deal with
metadata only.  Once the database files have been created on your disk,
you are pretty much done with metadata.

> /fjoe

Tom



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