Re: Direct I/O

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 12:59:59 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:55:39 +0100, Alexander S A Kjeldaas
<Alexander.Kjeldaas@fast.no> said:

>> Do the Stephen C Tweedie and SGI raw I/O patches do what you need?
>> If not, they may help a bit by the sounds of it.
>>
>> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/rawio/

> I guess they can be used, but they require that you build your own
> user space file system and utilities - which is a major pain to deal
> with for normal users.

O_DIRECT raw access to regular files is on the agenda.

--Stephen

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