Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:05:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:05:40 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:9276 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:05:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:05:30 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Jeff Dike Cc: Ryan Cumming , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Special Kernel Modification Message-ID: <20011105200530.G18319@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011105175337.D18319@athlon.random> <200111052018.PAA03082@ccure.karaya.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <200111052018.PAA03082@ccure.karaya.com>; from jdike@karaya.com on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:18:42PM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:18:42PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > eliminating caching as much as possible. If the metadata/data ratio is > small, then the metadata caching probably won't be noticable. yes, of course the metadata/data ratio is very small, O_DIRECT isn't slower than rawio infact (assuming the file isn't fragmented). Andrea - 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/