Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:02:24 -0500 | From | Nathan Straz <> | Subject | Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct |
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:03:58PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote: > Linux-kernel: is this patch horribly wrong? ... > to force O_DIRECT. The enclosed patch adds a "conv=direct" flag to > enable this usage.
Adding the functionality to conv= doesn't seem right to me. conv= is for converting the data in some way. This is just changing the way data is written. Right?
Have you looked at lmdd? It supports O_DIRECT and many other things not in the standard dd. -- Nate Straz nstraz@sgi.com sgi, inc http://www.sgi.com/ Linux Test Project http://ltp.sf.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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