From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 15 8:58: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8EF37B815 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13OikE-0007B8-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:35:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:34:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Max Khon Cc: Steve Reid , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD database server questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message