On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@gmail.com> wrote:
> O_DIRECT was specifically designed to solve the problem of double buffering between applications and the kernel. Why
areyou not able to use that in these situations?
O_DIRECT was apparently designed by a deranged monkey on some serious
mind-controlling substances. But don't take it from me, I have it on
good authority:
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/o_direct.html
One might even say the best authority.
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