Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?
Thomas Charron
twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 15:52:28 EDT 2007
On 6/22/07, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I was taking about using it with a flash device. If you utilize
> > O_DIRECT, your write will occur directly to the device, in this
> > case, written to flash.
> (sigh) I have to get back to work, so one last try:
> You're confused about O_DIRECT. It just specifies that
> that the data not go into the buffer cache when the write()
> syscall is invoked.
> We're talking about "writes to memory" not write() syscalls.
And I was talking about using a flash device as a memory storage
device, opened raw.
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-- Thomas
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