Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?

[Thomas Charron]

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