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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200102080543.AAA04243@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p2k, fsync
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Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2001 00:43:59 -0500
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In article <20010208013257.8F20B199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Actually, one of Plan 9's earliest commercial customers used it to
>support a massive database-like application on serious hardware.  The
>lack of fsync didn't seem to get in the way.

I have no doubt that I can build a transactional protocol on top of
TCP, for instance, but that's not the issue.  Did this project use 9P
directly?

The issue is wether I, as a programmer, have a way of saying, ``please
make sure that this file is committed to stable storage, and not in a
RAM buffer somewhere.''  Currently, there is no solution to this
problem.

	- Dan C.