Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264044AbVBDThC (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:37:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263141AbVBDThC (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:37:02 -0500 Received: from pirx.hexapodia.org ([199.199.212.25]:35650 "EHLO pirx.hexapodia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264044AbVBDTgx (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:36:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:36:53 -0800 From: Andy Isaacson To: Paulo Marques Cc: Ian Godin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Drive performance bottleneck Message-ID: <20050204193653.GB14940@hexapodia.org> References: <42026207.4090007@vgertech.com> <42027594.9090402@grupopie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42027594.9090402@grupopie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/pgp.txt X-Domestic-Surveillance: money launder bomb tax evasion Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 19 On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:03:48PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote: > FYI there was a patch running around last April that made a new option > for "dd" to make it use O_DIRECT. You can get it here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108135935629589&w=2 > > Unfortunately this hasn't made it into coreutils. Follow down the thread and you'll see that it was merged to coreutils CVS (message-id <85k70qsp71.fsf@pi.meyering.net>), but there apparently hasn't been a coreutils release since then. Nor has the patch been added to the debian package. -andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/