From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CFC3D0.1010607@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137689071.4966.190.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com>
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.
Perhaps it's time for 'dd' to acquire something like the 'hdparm --direct' flag.
(and, oops, maybe I should add it to the man page for hdparm too!).
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 16:52 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 [this message]
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
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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