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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!

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Al

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