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SubjectRe: raw drive access for databases
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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