Comment by ghshephard
4 years ago
Nothing says that you can't both offload everything to hardware, and have the application level configure it. Just need to expose the API for things like FLUSH behavior and such...
4 years ago
Nothing says that you can't both offload everything to hardware, and have the application level configure it. Just need to expose the API for things like FLUSH behavior and such...
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I'd prefer that the world dramatically change overnight, but if that's not going to happen, some little DIP switch on the drive that says "don't acknowledge writes that aren't durable yet" would be fine ;)