Re: Drive performance bottleneck

[Andy Isaacson]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>), but there apparently
hasn't been a coreutils release since then.  Nor has the patch been
added to the debian package.

-andy
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