Record-access libraries (with query on NFS)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <287 at cvbnet2.UUCP> aperez at cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.) writes:
>If you access the raw disk device do you disable that read-ahead and
>write-behind aspect of the UNIX filesystem abstraction?

It doesn't disable it, it bypasses it.