From: "Kenneth Chen" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Anton Blanchard'" <anton@samba.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Patch - make config_max_raw_devices work
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:17:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403160417.i2G4Hsm01819@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040316023946.GO19737@krispykreme>
Anton Blanchard on Mon, March 15, 2004 6:40 PM
> > Badari wrote basically the same patch a couple of months back. I dropped
> > it then, too ;)
> >
> > raw is a deprecated interface and if we keep on adding new features to it,
> > we will never be rid of the thing. If your application requires more than
> > 256 raw devices, please convert it to open the block device directly,
> > passing in the O_DIRECT flag.
>
> We only deprecated this thing on the 4th Feb 2004. I want to see the raw
> driver die but we cant expect apps to change their interfaces in the space
> of a month.
>
> Can we reach a compromise? :)
I second that with Anton. It takes awhile for application to convert to
O_DIRECT. We are already educating OSV to convert that. At mean time, this
is required for legacy application used in production environment (legacy in
The sense that went in production a couple month ago).
- Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 0:53 Kenneth Chen
2004-03-16 2:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-16 2:39 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-16 4:17 ` Kenneth Chen [this message]
2004-03-16 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
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