Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/18] [GFS2] Remove support for unused and pointless flag | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:19:14 -0400 | From | "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <> |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 swhiteho@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> > > The ability to mark files for direct i/o access when opened > normally is both unused and pointless, so this patch removes > support for that feature. [Snipped...]
So linux is no longer going to support commercial databases? Oracle and others need the O_DIRECT attribute. Linux can probably igonore it, but such an open cannot fail or else Linux gets thrown out of the commercial enterprise when an upgrade disables an entire financial institution.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.28 BogoMips). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/ _
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