Re: dvd+rw-tools update [6.0, DVD-R DL]

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>]

Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
>> >This sounds a bit confused. Are you able to describe your concern?
>> >
>> You said star doesn't run as fast on Linux as Solaris, you can probably 
>> fix that problem by using O_DIRECT, so the writes and reads don't 
>> compete for the same buffer memory.
>
> And I already mentioned that it is higly improbable that O_DIRECT will
> speed up on Linux. A better buffer cache (this means improving Linux) helps 
> much more than avoiding it.

How would a buffer cache improve the situation for star? I may have
missed the beginning of the discussion, but caching
write-once-then-forget data seems pointless.

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Matthias Andree