Re: Latest AIO patchset

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:45:29PM +0200, Hayim Shaul wrote:
> What exactly is the O_DIRECT flag? When I add this flag to the open func
> it fails.
> 
> More specificaly, this function fails
>   open("filename", O_RDWR | O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_CREAT, S_IRWXU);   
> 
> but this one succeeds
>   open("filename", O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE | O_CREAT, S_IRWXU);   
> 
> I'm running linux 2.6.0 with libaio 0.3.92.

Which filesystem?  Not all support O_DIRECT.

		-ben
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