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To: "B. Galliart" <bgallia@orion.it.luc.edu>
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Subject: Re: raw device library to provide block alignment
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 10 Aug 2001 22:00:44 +0200
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"B. Galliart" <bgallia@orion.it.luc.edu> writes:
> 
>   Is anyone working on such a library as I described above?  Or is there
> an easier method?

The standard non raw page cache does what you want.
Basically adding such things kills all the performance benefits raw may 
have. If you want raw you should fix your application to use aligned buffers.

-Andi