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diff --git a/libraries/libeatmydata/README b/libraries/libeatmydata/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2436e2fb1f --- /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. |