this is more often called "direct i/o" or "unbuffered i/o".
it's on the list of things I want to add, but I haven't had time yet.

-Chuck


On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:09:41PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is it possible to do read/write access to regular files without buffer
> cache?
> 
> of course requests and position in file will be padded to 4 or 8kB