From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:42:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010703104253.B29868@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B3C4CB4.6B3D2B2F@kegel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B3C4CB4.6B3D2B2F@kegel.com>; from dank@kegel.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:39:00AM -0700
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.
--Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-03 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-29 9:39 O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5 Dan Kegel
2001-06-29 9:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 10:16 ` Dan Kegel
2001-06-29 12:49 ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-05 13:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-29 15:23 ` Steve Lord
2001-07-03 9:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-07-03 15:10 ` Daryll Strauss
2001-07-03 15:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-05 13:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-05 14:28 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-05 14:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-05 15:06 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-06 0:25 ` Keith Owens
[not found] <3B3C4CB4.6B3D2B2F@kegel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-06-29 10:42 ` Andi Kleen
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