Hi,

I have written a little archiver program, since both pax and tar cannot 
create files larger than 4 GB. :(

Since I expect the program to not read any data twice, I added the 
O_DIRECT flag to all open(2) calls. But top(1) still tells me that most 
of my RAM is occupied by "FILE", and only about 1 megabyte is "Free".

All the involved filesystems are ffs. So did I understand O_DIRECT 
wrong? Or is it at all impossible to disable the kernel cache for file data?

Roland