Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:42:53 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5 |
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Hi,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:39:00AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> It supports raw partitions, which is good; that might satisfy my > boss (although the administration will be a pain, and I'm not > sure whether it's really supported by Dell RAID devices).
All block devices support raw IO --- the raw IO mechanism talks to the device driver through the normal kernel-internal block IO entry points.
> I'd prefer O_DIRECT :-(
Andrea Arcangeli has already posted patches you can try for ext2. The functionality isn't in the mainline kernel yet, though.
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