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SubjectRe: direct (unbufferd) disk access
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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