From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 23:55:34 GMT
In article <1993Aug22.150338.1810@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
> Again, on my ST, there was a program that bypassed the filesystem
>completely to test raw disk i/o, and somehow they even made it
>non-destructive so you didn't have to use a clean partition to do tests.
>It seems there is no equivalent under *nix.
Well, actually, there is; it's called the "raw disk device". Unfortunately,
Linux doesn't implement raw disk devices; they're *all* buffered.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca