Re: Special Kernel Modification

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:05:30 +0100

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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
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