Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:36:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:36:08 -0500 Received: from sherman.pixar.com ([138.72.27.21]:26331 "EHLO sherman.pixar.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:35:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A79F2D0.8AA9F02D@pixar.com> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:35:44 -0800 From: Arun Rao Organization: Pixar Animation Studios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Direct (unbuffered) I/O status ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We're trying to port some code that currently runs on SGI using the IRIX direct I/O facility. From searching the web, it appears that a similar feature either already is or will soon be available under Linux. Could anyone fill me in on what the status is? (I know about mapping block devices to raw devices, but that alone will not work for the application we're contemplating: we'd like conventional file-system support as well as unbuffered I/O capability). Thanks in advance! -Arun -- Arun Rao Pixar Animation Studios 1200 Park Ave Emeryville, CA 94608 (510) 752-3526 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/