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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>,
	Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>,
	Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>,
	linux-raid list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mismatch_cnt again
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:19:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1hbstd8yb.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFEE283.9040702@tmr.com> (Bill Davidsen's message of "Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:01:55 -0500")

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:

>> FWIW, databases on raw disk have gone out of fashion.  But it is true
>> that applications that do direct I/O need to avoid updating buffers
>> in flight.
>> 

Bill> May have gone out of fashion in new applications (I'm not sure I
Bill> agree, but as a talking point), 

I don't believe Oracle supports it anymore.  ASM solves this and several
other problems.


Bill> but there are tons of old apps which are not going to be updated
Bill> any time soon, and any number of libraries which mmap stuff and
Bill> effect multiple applications.

We'll just unmap the page while it's being written out.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-07  0:41 mismatch_cnt again Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-11-07  1:53 ` berk walker
2009-11-07  7:49   ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-11-07  8:08     ` Michael Evans
2009-11-07  8:42       ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-11-07 13:51       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-07 14:58         ` Doug Ledford
2009-11-07 16:23           ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-07 16:37             ` Doug Ledford
2009-11-07 22:25               ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-11-07 22:57                 ` Doug Ledford
2009-11-08 15:32             ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-09 18:08               ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-07 22:19           ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-11-07 22:58             ` Doug Ledford
2009-11-08 15:46           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-08 16:04             ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-09 18:22               ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-09 21:50                 ` NeilBrown
2009-11-10 18:05                   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-10 22:17                     ` Peter Rabbitson
2009-11-13  2:15                     ` Neil Brown
2009-11-09 19:13               ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-08 22:51             ` Peter Rabbitson
2009-11-09 18:56               ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-09 21:14                 ` NeilBrown
2009-11-09 21:54                   ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-10  0:17                     ` NeilBrown
2009-11-10  9:09                       ` Peter Rabbitson
2009-11-10 14:03                         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-12 22:40                           ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-13 17:12                             ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-14 17:01                               ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-17  5:19                                 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2009-11-14 19:04                               ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-17  5:22                                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-10 19:52                       ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-13  2:37                         ` Neil Brown
2009-11-13  5:30                           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-13  9:33                           ` Peter Rabbitson
2009-11-15 21:05                           ` Piergiorgio Sartor
2009-11-15 22:29                             ` Guy Watkins
2009-11-16  1:23                               ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-16  1:37                               ` Neil Brown
2009-11-16  5:21                                 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-16  5:35                                   ` Neil Brown
2009-11-16  7:40                                     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-12 22:57                       ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-09 18:11           ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-09 20:58             ` Doug Ledford
2009-11-09 22:03 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-12 19:20 greg
2009-11-13  2:28 ` Neil Brown
2009-11-13  5:19   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-15  1:54   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-11-16 21:36 greg
2009-11-16 22:14 ` Neil Brown
2009-11-17  4:50   ` Goswin von Brederlow

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