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The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances [*].

— Linus Torvalds

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Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2.6.: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two).

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