On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Trond Myklebust <tron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> O_DIRECT was specifically designed to solve the problem of double buffering 
> between applications and the kernel. Why are you not able to use that in 
> these situations?

O_DIRECT was apparently designed by a deranged monkey on some serious
mind-controlling substances.  But don't take it from me, I have it on
good authority:

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/o_direct.html

One might even say the best authority.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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