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Removing fsync from our local storage engine
Posted by
zzsheng
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2 hours ago |
2 comments
alexhnn 2 hours ago
Working with files is hard [1], and most of the complicity is from the fsync API. I am glad it can be eliminated from a kv storage engine.
[1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42805425
zzsheng 2 hours ago
Author here. This is not a general argument against fsync; the design depends on SSD-only deployment, preallocated files, O_DIRECT, single-key atomicity, and device write guarantees.