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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:44:31AM -0800, 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.

The oflag=direct option was added to GNU coreutils in version 5.3.0.

> Thanks,
> Badari

cu
Adrian

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