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Subject: Re: Disable read/write caching to disk?
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<<On Fri, 27 May 2005 12:15:12 -0600, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> said:

> Well, having a writer is pointless if the readers are stuck on a 
> snapshot.

Depends on the sort of problem you're trying to solve.  If your
business process already involves a "release" mechanism, then it
should integrate quite well (just need to tell the clients to mount a
new snapshot).  Obviously this doesn't help for something like a
clustered database.

-GAWollman