On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Randy Scott wrote:
> > However, unlike an MS OS, you are always free to join in the development
> > effort. If RAW IO in linux is important to you, you could always help
> > implement it instead of continue to whine about its absence. However, I
> > would be very interested in you explaining why you NEEDED non-buffered,
> > totally raw I/O. (I really would like to hear the reasons)
>
> If, for instance, you were sharing a SCSI disk between a pair of machines,
> it might be helpful to actually get the data written out to the disk
> at the same time that you are notifying the other machine of the write.
> Without some type of fixed-time policy, you cannot (?) gaurantee any
> cache consistancy between the two machines.
>
> I'm just guessing at this. Comments?
>
> --
> Randy Scott <scottr@belle.bork.com>
>