Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:36:53 -0800 | From | Andy Isaacson <> | Subject | Re: Drive performance bottleneck |
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:03:48PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote: > FYI there was a patch running around last April that made a new option > for "dd" to make it use O_DIRECT. You can get it here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108135935629589&w=2 > > Unfortunately this hasn't made it into coreutils.
Follow down the thread and you'll see that it was merged to coreutils CVS (message-id <85k70qsp71.fsf@pi.meyering.net>), but there apparently hasn't been a coreutils release since then. Nor has the patch been added to the debian package.
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