Re: Composition [was Re: gnome-session proposal]

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> Get a better kernel then ;-). On a more serious note, didn't the recent
> Firefox 3 O_SYNC fiasco on Linux make some file system developers
> realize some short comings of current state of the kernel? If so,

Synchronous I/O is *very* slow but you need to discuss that mostly with
hardware vendors if you must use it. Hard disks have very low
operations/seconds and very high internal latencies you can't hide if the
application demands synchronous I/O.

That is why we have fsync/fdatasync and thread creation...