From: Peter Mutsaers (muts@compi.hobby.nl)
Date: 08/25/93 

From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 06:10:40 GMT

>> On Tue, 24 Aug 1993 11:39:27 GMT, bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon
>> S. Allbery) said:

> buf=malloc(16*1024*1024);
> fd=open("/dev/hda",O_RDWR);

  BSA> /dev/hda is still buffered... Linux doesn't have raw disk
  BSA> devices. I haven't yet figured out why there's so much
  BSA> resistance to adding them.

I know, but still I think this is much 'more raw' than writing really
into a filesystem, so wouldn't it be a reasonable test? 

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