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DateTue, 1 Mar 2005 23:42:12 -0700
FromAndreas Dilger <>
SubjectRe: O_DIRECT on 2.4 ext3
On Mar 01, 2005  21:34 -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> I tried to read from a regular ext3 file opened as O_DIRECT, but got the
> "Invalid argument" error.  Running the same test program on a block device
> succeeded.

ext3 doesn't support the direct_IO method in 2.4 kernels, though there
was a patch at one time.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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