Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:14:47 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:58 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:44:31AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > >... > > But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests > > to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block > > devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for > > O_DIRECT. > > The oflag=direct option was added to GNU coreutils in version 5.3.0.
Cool. It works - I have no complaints, then :)
# dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=64k
Thanks, Badari
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