Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver

[Mark Lord]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> But again, its really useful to have raw driver to do simple "dd" tests
> to test raw performance for disks (for comparing with filesystems, block
> devices etc..). Without that, we need to add option to "dd" for
> O_DIRECT.

Perhaps it's time for 'dd' to acquire something like the 'hdparm --direct' flag.
(and, oops, maybe I should add it to the man page for hdparm too!).

Cheers
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