On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:05:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I should have fought back harder. There really is no valid reason for EVER
> using O_DIRECT. You need a buffer whatever IO you do, and it might as well
> be the page cache. There are better ways to control the page cache than
> play games and think that a page cache isn't necessary.
There is a valid reason: you really don't want to go through the page
cache when a hard drive has bad blocks. The only way to get fast
recovery and correct error reporting to userspace is by using O_DIRECT.
> So don't use O_DIRECT. Use things like madvise() and posix_fadvise()
> instead.
Both don't do what I want it to do: only read the sector I request you
to read and certainly do not try to outsmart me by doing some kind of
readahead.
Erik
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