On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:34:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >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. > > And, presumably, in cp and mv and any other command that does a lot of > I/O. It's much better to paper over a kernel deficiency by modifying > every program than by fixing the kernel...
Well, IME cp and mv are not *regularly* used to deal with reads/writes from several hundred megabytes to several hundred gigabytes in size, while dd is. So, IMO O_DIRECT support in dd is of much more pratical use than in cp or mv. -- "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]
