On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:33:17PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> On Feb 28, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Stone wrote:
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> >But: if FreeBSD-4 doesn't need direct I/O, why do we need it?
> 
> FreeBSD *has* direct I/O.  Perhaps MySQL is using it.

mysql can use direct I/O, but it doesn't by default (and it wasn't in
the configuration used in the article).

-Chuck