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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: 22 Oct 93 18:10:58
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org's message of Fri, 22 Oct 1993 01:46:10 GMT
In article <CF9zKy.D8s@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
>So who said that these ordered writes need to be done synchronously?
nobody, but that, currently, is the only way to insure that they're
done in the correct order.
Getting them done in the correct order, asynchronously, is harder
than it looks...
cgd
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.