Re: Cobalt

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:46:45 +0200

Brian wrote:

> async I/O as in an async filesystem? Is that a reality on linux yet?

Squid 2 does async disk-I/O on top of standard blocking disk I/O by
using threads. The I/O operations themselves is not asyncronous, but in
Squids point of view they are. This is on all platforms that supports
working POSIX kernel threads.

---
Henrik Nordström
Sparetime Squid Hacker
Received on Mon Oct 05 1998 - 16:40:02 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:42:20 MST