Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932460AbWASQ6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:58:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932481AbWASQ6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:58:36 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:13330 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932460AbWASQ6f (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:58:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:58:32 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , "Chen, Kenneth W" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver Message-ID: <20060119165832.GS19398@stusta.de> References: <20060119030251.GG19398@stusta.de> <20060118194103.5c569040.akpm@osdl.org> <1137689071.4966.190.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137689071.4966.190.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:44:31AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: >... > But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests > to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block > devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for > O_DIRECT. The oflag=direct option was added to GNU coreutils in version 5.3.0. > Thanks, > Badari cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/