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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/