Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I searched the archives and found a thread from over a year ago > talking about adding support to dd for O_DIRECT, but it is not > documented in the man pages.
It's in coreutils 5.93 dd. Try, e.g., "dd iflag=direct". It's not documented with the phrase "O_DIRECT", though, which is possibly why you missed it. > does dd use aio so as to keep the IO pipelined, since a blocking > read/write would only be able to access one file/disk at a time? Nope. Might be nice to add, I suppose. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
