PostgreSQL 對 fsync() 的行為傷腦筋...

FOSDEM 2019 上的演講,討論 PostgreSQL 在確保 ACID 特性中的 Durability 時遇到 fsync() 的行為跟預想的不一樣 (主要是當 fsync() 失敗的行為):「PostgreSQL vs. fsync」。

在「PostgreSQL vs. fsync. How is it possible that PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years, and what we'll do about it.」這邊的 Q&A 形式的訪談有快速描述了短期的計畫與長期的想法:

The short-term solution is ensuring that we detect fsync errors reliably at least on sufficiently recent kernels (since 4.13). On older kernels we can’t do much better, unfortunately.

The long-term solution is still being discussed in the community, but it’s hard to say how we could keep relying on buffered I/O in the future. So we may end up with direct I/O, but that’s a pretty significant change and is likely going to be a multi-year project.

MySQL 這邊則是以 O_DIRECT 為主的世界,受到的影響就小很多了...

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