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jandrewrogerstoday at 4:40 PM0 repliesview on HN

Some Linux filesystems, notably ext4 and XFS, provide the necessary features to get 90% of the benefit simply by using O_DIRECT correctly. The last 10% is achieved by doing direct I/O to raw block devices, with the obvious caveat that this is not as easy to manage.

Both of these are commonly done in database storage engines.