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Message-Id: <200701221859.51776.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:59:51 +0300
From: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Linus may be right that perhaps one day the CPU will be so much faster
> than disk that such a copy will not be measurable and then O_DIRECT
> could be downgraded to O_STREAMING or an fadvise. If such a day will
> come by, probably that same day Dr. Tanenbaum will be finally right
> about his OS design too.
Dr. T. is probably right with his OS design, it's just people aren't ready
for it, yet.
Thanks!
--
Al
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