Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:03:24 +0200 | From | Rob van Nieuwkerk <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > ext3 in 2.4 kernels does not support O_DIRECT. To confuse matters, > recent RH kernels silently ignore O_DIRECT if you are not root, so > you may think O_DIRECT is being used, but it isn't.
Modern RH kernels also ignore O_DIRECT if you are root: O_DIRECT is completely disabled/ignored.
I suspect it is because gcc-3.2.2-5 (in RH9) does not compile 2.4 O_DIRECT correctly ..
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