Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C

Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C by valarauca1 on Monday September 04, 2017 @11:53AM (#15169014)

This is why msync is for. You can sync page by page and ensure ordering yourself.

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Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C by drfuchs on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:37PM (#15169283)

You think you can, but you can't! Linux always sync's the whole file; see https://lwn.net/Articles/502612/ for a discussion of why fixing this horrible bug is too dangerous.

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Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C by mcguire on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:52PM (#15169375)

"You think you can, but you can't!"

Welcome to systems programming....

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Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C by neoflame on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:59PM (#15169795)

This is not true after Linux 3.16, commit 7fc34a62ca44 ("mm/msync.c: sync only the requested range in msync()").

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