Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] some ide qs [was:Re: Interesting article on SCSI vs. IDE]
From: Andrew Clausen (clausen_AT_gnu.org)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 09:33:02 EET
Jay Ts wrote:
> One thing I'd suggest is to look into the disk access methods that
> Sun, SGI, and other "big" Unix companies have developed for the
> database vendors. The method bypasses the Unix filesystem and
> disk cache, and allows the application software to create its own
> filesystem. I think that this would be the way to go. Of course,
> it means the application has to have code for accessing the disk
> partition, and if more than one app is going to do that, there would
> have to be agreed-upon standards.
Linux (2.[34]) already has this. See Stephen Tweedie's rawio patch.
Andrew Clausen
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