On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:03:58PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote: > Linux-kernel: is this patch horribly wrong? ... > to force O_DIRECT. The enclosed patch adds a "conv=direct" flag to > enable this usage.
Adding the functionality to conv= doesn't seem right to me. conv= is for converting the data in some way. This is just changing the way data is written. Right? Have you looked at lmdd? It supports O_DIRECT and many other things not in the standard dd. -- Nate Straz [EMAIL PROTECTED] sgi, inc http://www.sgi.com/ Linux Test Project http://ltp.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
