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| author | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-12-21 15:33:32 +0700 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-12-25 15:05:38 -0600 |
| commit | 4f53cb12f0173dc9ac1d3b96fa2dad8a2261a871 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ea007b86912dbdcfcda5865a391ecaf5657846f /libraries/libeatmydata/README | |
| parent | 7823868a30838cda8ccdad39c3a460eda72f4a6b (diff) | |
libraries/libeatmydata: Added (library designed to disable fsync).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/libeatmydata/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/libeatmydata/README | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/libeatmydata/README b/libraries/libeatmydata/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..2436e2fb1f7ac --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libeatmydata/README @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +libeatmydata is a small LD_PRELOAD library designed to (transparently) disable +fsync (and friends, like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making +software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making this +software no longer crash safe. + +DO NOT use libeatmydata on software where you care about what it stores. +It's called libEAT-MY-DATA for a reason. |