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Yep it is called DATABASE access.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 17 2003, Constantine Sapuntzakis wrote:
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> > All the operating systems I've ever seen have locks to ensure that you 
> > don't issue multiple I/Os simultaneously to the same range of sectors on 
> > a disk.
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> For various types of raw/direct-io, Linux will quite happily issue
> overlapping/identical reads/writes simultaneously. When you don't have a
> cachen in-between, there's typically nothing preventing anything like
> that. I'd be surprised if other OS didn't behave similarly. At least
> with submitting raw commands this could trivially happen.
> 
> -- 
> Jens Axboe
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