From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:59:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqy5m8u3.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601211853.56339.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (Gene Heskett's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:53:56 -0500")
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>>No, it's a different raw driver, for big databases that basically want
>>their own custom filesystem on a disk.
>
> With the attendent possibility of rendering the whole thing
> unrecoverably moot?
>
> OTOH, if this database actually does have a better way, and its mature
> and proven, then I see no reason to cripple the database people just to
> remove what is viewed as a potentially dangerous path to the media
> surface for the unwashed to abuse.
The database people have a newer and supported way to do that, via the
O_DIRECT flag to open(). They aren't losing any functionality.
-Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-21 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 3:02 [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver Adrian Bunk
2006-01-19 3:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 5:43 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-21 1:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-21 1:08 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-21 1:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19 16:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-19 16:44 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-19 16:52 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-19 16:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-19 18:14 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-01-20 8:24 ` [SARCASM] " Ingo Oeser
2006-01-20 14:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-22 12:51 ` [OT] " Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-01-21 8:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-21 19:41 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-21 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-21 21:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-21 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-21 21:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-22 17:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-21 23:26 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-21 23:30 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 23:53 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-21 23:59 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2006-01-22 0:09 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-22 0:15 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-22 1:30 ` Doug McNaught
2006-01-22 8:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-22 20:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-22 21:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
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