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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 11:48:10 -0700
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Direct I/O
Message-ID:  <20000423114810.A50332@sigbus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000423104926.B4675@freebie.lemis.com>
References:  <20000421165145.A44188@sigbus.com> <20000423104926.B4675@freebie.lemis.com>

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On the subject of Re: Direct I/O, Greg Lehey stated:

> On Friday, 21 April 2000 at 16:51:45 -0700, Charles Henrich wrote:
> > Is there anyway with FreeBSD's ffs to do direct filesystem I/O (a.k.a. XFS
> > under IRIX?)
> 
> Well, XFS is a file system, not a direct I/O facility.  What exactly do you
> mean?

Unbuffered I/O to the filesystem, where the bits are copied directly into the
space used by the process, or the kernel buffer being handed to the process,
removing the extra copy from kernel buffer to userland buffer.

-Crh

      Charles Henrich       Manex Visual Effects       henrich@sigbus.com

                       http://www.sigbus.com/~henrich


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