On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:11, Nate Diller wrote:
> On 1/12/07, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most applications don't get the kind of performance analysis that
> Digeo was doing, and even then, it's rather lucky that we caught that.
> So I personally think it'd be best for libc or something to simulate
> the O_STREAM behavior if you ask for it. That would simplify things
> for the most common case, and have the side benefit of reducing the
> amount of extra code an application would need in order to take
> advantage of that feature.
Sounds like you are saying that making O_DIRECT really mean
O_STREAM will work for everybody (including db people,
except that they will moan a lot about "it isn't _real_ O_DIRECT!!!
Linux suxxx"). I don't care about that.
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