From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p2k, fsync
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:24:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010208062443.1E903199EC@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> 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.
This question has been answered. No, there is no solution. Other
systems claim to have solutions but they are exaggerating. It's an
issue for file servers, not operating systems.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 6:24 rob pike [this message]
2001-02-08 22:08 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 22:26 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
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2001-02-09 0:08 [9fans] " nemo
2001-02-09 18:37 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-08 22:27 forsyth
2001-02-09 18:43 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-09 21:37 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-08 17:46 Paul Taysom
2001-02-08 21:49 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 14:03 nemo
2001-02-08 12:50 Laura Creighton
2001-02-08 20:03 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 6:26 rob pike
2001-02-08 1:32 rob pike
2001-02-08 5:43 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 1:15 Russ Cox
2001-02-08 6:01 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 7:28 ` Nikolai Saoukh
2001-02-09 17:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-10 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-07 19:14 jmk
2001-02-08 1:02 ` Dan Cross
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-02-07 15:23 ` rob pike
2001-02-07 18:42 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-02-08 1:19 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-08 9:43 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-07 15:06 jmk
2001-02-07 18:16 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-02-09 17:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-07 7:05 Scott Schwartz
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