direct IO on fedora 11

direct IO on fedora 11

guy keren choo at actcom.co.il
Sun Dec 13 19:00:47 IST 2009


Dan Bar Dov wrote:
> Anybody know where is the raw(1) command in fedora11?
> I want to do some direct IO tests, and cannot find raw(1).
> Maybe I'm missing an rpm, but which? yum fails to locate it.
> 
> Ideas?
> Dan
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'raw' is deprecated. applications should open files/block-devices using 
O_DIRECT - and they will achieve the same effect (and will have to use 
properly sized and aligned I/O buffers).

--guy



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