Re: Really Simple File System versus raw disk I/O

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 06:21:31 EST

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    In article <cistron.200003312027.PAA18717@op.net>,
    Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@Op.Net> wrote:
    >Daniel Phillips suggested to me privately a month or two back that
    >there might some general utility in a "raw" filesystem that created a
    >single file in a partition, allowed no index, inodes, directories,
    >extension, truncation etc. This would be useful for applications that
    >need to control disk seeking (such as high end audio applications).

    I wrote such a thing a few years ago for our news servers. I needed
    direct access to a partition while still going through VFS so that
    mmap() could be used.

    See ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/v2.2/rawfs-0.6.tar.gz

    There's also a v2.3 version but I haven't tested that extensively yet,
    and I still have some patches pending for it that I need to apply.

    It might not be exactly what you need but it's a start.

    Mike. 

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