non-buffers writes

hi

how can i do direct writes to disk without the buffer-cache overhead? i failed to see any relevant flag to open() , nor any fnctl()

THX
/gabi

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Hi,

Via /dev/raw/raw* raw devices ("man raw"). We plan much more powerful direct IO functionality for 2.5 (which should support O_DIRECT opening of devices and regular files), but for now raw IO is the only supported mechanism.

Cheers,
Stephen
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