Re: Anything to be gained from a 'Postgres Filesystem'?

> As someone else noted, this doesn't belong in the filesystem (rather 
> the kernel's block I/O layer/buffer cache). But I agree, an API by 
> which we can tell the kernel what kind of I/O behavior to expect would 
> be good.
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> The closest API to what you're describing that I'm aware of is 
> posix_fadvise(). While that is technically-speaking a POSIX standard, 
> it is not widely implemented (I know Linux 2.6 implements it; based on 
> some quick googling, it looks like AIX does too).

Don't forget about the existence/usefulness/widely implemented 
madvise(2)/posix_madvise(2) call, which can give the OS the following 
hints: MADV_NORMAL, MADV_SEQUENTIAL, MADV_RANDOM, MADV_WILLNEED, 
MADV_DONTNEED, and MADV_FREE.  :)  -sc

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Sean Chittenden