From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Ian Godin <Ian.Godin@lowrydigital.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Drive performance bottleneck
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:36:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050204193653.GB14940@hexapodia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42027594.9090402@grupopie.com>
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:03:48PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote:
> FYI there was a patch running around last April that made a new option
> for "dd" to make it use O_DIRECT. You can get it here:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108135935629589&w=2
>
> Unfortunately this hasn't made it into coreutils.
Follow down the thread and you'll see that it was merged to coreutils
CVS (message-id <85k70qsp71.fsf@pi.meyering.net>), but there apparently
hasn't been a coreutils release since then. Nor has the patch been
added to the debian package.
-andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 2:24 Ian Godin
2005-02-03 3:56 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-02-03 16:49 ` Ian Godin
2005-02-03 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2005-02-03 17:40 ` Nuno Silva
2005-02-03 18:08 ` Ian Godin
2005-02-03 19:03 ` Paulo Marques
2005-02-04 19:36 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2005-02-04 9:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 22:51 ` Lincoln Dale
2005-02-04 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-06 4:25 ` Nuno Silva
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