> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:42:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > it would be really good! with support in common mpeg/divx players etc..
> > and with option in cp and dd
>
> Why do you think that "raw" I/O would be more efficient than the
> filesystem buffer cache doing readahead?
>
> 	-is

As an interresting side point, I've heard rumors that Solaris 9 will
include a "direct I/O" feature in UFS.  For what [good] reasons, I'm not
sure, but I'm sure there have to be valid reasons...

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