Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:09:05 +0100 (BST)


> Stephen Tweedie has written a patch for unbuffered I/O; the URL I have
> from some time ago is
>
> ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/raw-io
>
> though this host doesn't seem to respond at the moment. I believe

Someone blew the three phase power for the entire site. I don't think it
was ftp.linux.org.uk, the disks arent that big.

> Stephen has mentioned that this will go into the main tree at some point.
> (Possibly it's already in 2.3.x---I haven't looked recently.)

It is already in 2.3.x yes

Alan

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