Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bernd Eckenfels) | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT, ext3fs, kernel 2.4.32... again | Date | Tue, 02 May 2006 00:23:07 +0200 |
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Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> wrote: >> > Your interpretation is correct. It would be nicer for open() to >> > fail on fs'es which don't support O_DIRECT, but v2.4 makes such >> > check later at read/write unfortunately ;( >> >> Oops :( > > Nothing else really make sense due to fcntl... > fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_DIRECT); > ...can happen at any time, to enable/disable direct I/O.
Actually everytime the O_DIRECT feaure is enabled (open() or fctnl()) you could fail, why not?
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