Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS

From: Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 10:24:20 EST


On Saturday, February 02, 2002 01:35:56 AM -0800 Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:05:38PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> > ext2 is the only filesystem which has O_DIRECT support.
>
> And XFS ;-)
>
> I sent reiserfs O_DIRECT support patches to someone a while ago. I
> can look to ressurect these (assuming I can find them!)
>
> Chris Mason is always going to be a better source for these anyhow, he
> certainly understands any complex nuances there may be. Chris, do you
> have any cycles to comment on this please?

I've dug your patch out of my archives, it should be safer now that
we've got the expanding truncate patch into the kernel (2.2.18pre).
I'm porting it forward now.

thanks,
chris

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