Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:09:15 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
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On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:59, Doug McNaught wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>>>No, it's a different raw driver, for big databases that basically
>>> want their own custom filesystem on a disk.
>>
>> With the attendent possibility of rendering the whole thing
>> unrecoverably moot?
>>
>> OTOH, if this database actually does have a better way, and its
>> mature and proven, then I see no reason to cripple the database
>> people just to remove what is viewed as a potentially dangerous path
>> to the media surface for the unwashed to abuse.
>
>The database people have a newer and supported way to do that, via the
>O_DIRECT flag to open().  They aren't losing any functionality.
>
Good, but what about speed, is that impacted in any way they can 
measure, or is this flag/method actually faster than the raw driver is?

>-Doug

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