On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Michael Stone wrote: > That's a kernel issue, not a dd issue. There are plans to fix that in > 2.6.14 by less aggressively caching data for processes that behave like > dd (or copy, which does exactly the same thing).
Hmm, yes, that would help. Still, it would be good to have O_DIRECT support in dd for all sort of activities that should not cache at all. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
