Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:42:00 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: direct (unbufferd) disk access |
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Hi,
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:01:49 +0400 (MSD), "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:
> In <19990624154447.L30370@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> Matthew Wilcox > (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com) wrote:
>> You want Stephen Tweedie's raw IO patches. >> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/raw-io
> Just DO NOT ask about problems with your kernel when such patches are > installed. Linus has STRONG feeling AGAINST such patches (and AGAINST > raw IO at all!)
That turns out not to be the case...
The current raw IO patches use a clean internal architecture to pass the user space IO to the block device layers, based on a design Linus and I sketched out.
> so if you'll have problem with them do not bother him.
Correct: send problem reports back to me for now.
--Stephen
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