Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.2.1-2.1 > Severity: normal > > Filling this bug as normal instead of wishlist because the lack of O_DIRECT > in dd during big io takss causes the kernel to pratically discard all useful > cached data and inodes, thus degrading system performance a great deal for > no good reason. ...
FYI, this option was added for coreutils-5.3.0: * Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2005-01-08) [unstable] ... dd has new iflag= and oflag= options with the following flags: ... direct use direct I/O for data There's also been discussion of doing something similar for the regular-file-copying code in copy.c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]