Re: linux generic SCSI interface 'READ' speed.

[Marc SCHAEFER]

GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried to use RAW disk devices. But AFAIK, it handles with not
> raw but ext2fs disks. The direct I/O is not useful in my goal, unfortunately.
> I also know Linus dislikes to implement the raw I/O device driver.

No, direct IO is supposed to allow file I/O (read(), write(), seek())
bypassing the buffer cache. It does not need an ext2fs on the drive.


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