On Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > My apologies for the newbish questions. If this has all been > asked/answered before, please just point me to any papers that > explain the pros/cons of o_direct. Thanks. I'd recommend the kernel pages on http://lwn.net From time to time you see the discussions about o_direct, always a subject of discussion. I'm not a programmer so I don't care ;-) -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 // Wir haben im Moment zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://zmi.at/haus2009/