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> > O_DIRECT is especially useful for applications which maintain their > > own cache, e.g. a database. And adding Async to it is an even bigger > > bonus (another Oracleism we did in PTX). > > The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole > interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey > on some serious mind-controlling substances [*]. Used with aio its extremely nice. Without the aio patches its a bit lacking whenever readahead is useful Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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