Title | : | Your SSD lies but that's ok .. I think Postgres fsync |
Duration | : | 29 minutes, 16 seconds |
Uploader | : | Hussein Nasser |
Added On: | : | 24 May, 2023 |
Views | : | 19.4K times |
Likes | : | 0 |
Source | : | YouTube |
fsync is a linux system call that flushes all pages and metadata for a given file to the disk. It is indeed an expensive operation but required for durability especially for database systems. Regular writes that make it to the disk controller are often pl