Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:38:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature. |
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes: > > > Delete the allegedly obsolete raw driver feature, which has been > > marked for death since 2005. > > I think it would be better to replace it with a wrapper that forces > O_DIRECT and opens the underlying block device. I suspect just > dropping it will break many people's database setups, which is not > nice. Widely used admin interfaces should be only broken when there > is a very good reason and just "there is a better way now" doesn't > seem quite strong enough.
ok, i'll leave that in the hands of those higher up the food chain.
rday
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