Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT question | Date | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:59:51 +0300 |
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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!
-- Al
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