On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > In this case the problem is that we want to tell the OS "Hey, if this
> > stuff is actually going to go out to the spindles then compress it. And
> > by the way, we won't be doing any random access on it, either." But
> > AFAIK there's no option like that in fopen... :)
>
> posix_fadvise(). We don't use it and many OSes don't support it, but it
> is there.
There's an fadvise that tells the OS to compress the data if it actually
makes it to disk?
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