From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:26:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:26:13 -0500 Received: from ns.innomedia.soft.net ([164.164.79.130]:52402 "EHLO alabama.innomedia.soft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3E81BB1B.3020007@innomedia.soft.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:07:15 +0530 From: Akhilesh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Development , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox Subject: Direck IO on SCSI Disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I want to develop a clustere file system using independent Blade servers (about 96 in number) running linux. Each blade having 2 or more SCSI disks attached to it. In order to build our own filesystem I need to do direct writing/reading in the SCSI disk bypassing all the kernel level buffering. Could you please suggest some information as how to go about it. Best Regards, Akhilesh Soni Innomedia Technologies Pvt Ltd. India