> The only (completely) real solution for this is to use raw devices,
> uncached by the kernel, without any filesystem overhead...
> Are there any plans to support that?
No specific plans. afaik no "anti-plans" either, but the reason that
we don't do this yet is that it isn't clear to all of us that this
would be a real performance win. If someone wanted to do it as a
project that would result in a benchmark, that would help move things
along...
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California