Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...

[Chris Friesen]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'm hoping in-memory databases will just kill off the current crop 
> totally. That solves all the IO problems - the only thing that goes to 
> disk is the log and the backups, and both go there totally linearly unless 
> the designer was crazy.

How does this play with massive (ie hundreds or thousands of gigabytes) 
databases?  Surely you can't expect to put it all in memory?

Chris


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