Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:51:03 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: raw drive access for databases |
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Meelis Roos wrote:
> CS> OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if someday there were an fcntl() that > CS> turned off buffering for a specific fd. > > Or an option for open() like O_NOCACHE. In fact, fcntl() seems to be more > flexible since you can turn it on and off whenever you want (but who needs > that?). > > Multimedia applications would also benefit from this.
Yes.. Multimedia would REALLY benifit. It would be nice to play a big mpg or avi without it throwing everything else out of my buffercache..
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