Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 17:52:00 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bypassing disk buffers Message-ID: <20000502175159.D9246@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000502165517.A82222@sigbus.com>; from henrich@sigbus.com on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:55:17PM -0700 References: <20000502165517.A82222@sigbus.com>
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* Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> [000502 17:26] wrote: > In FreeBSD how do you bypass the kernel buffers for file I/O (can you?). That > is, when I read a file I want it coming directly off disk, not out of memory, > even if I've just read it.. Afaik that's only possible with disk devices, not files themselves, you can open a disk charater device and read from it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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