Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:58:32 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver |
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:44:31AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: >... > But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests > to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block > devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for > O_DIRECT.
The oflag=direct option was added to GNU coreutils in version 5.3.0.
> Thanks, > Badari
cu Adrian
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