Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Special Kernel Modification | Date | Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:22:09 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> |
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bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org said: > Nope, last I checked O_DIRECT enforces buffer and file offset > alignment. Normal apps wouldn't work very well at all.
Except that the apps won't be the ones doing O_DIRECT IO. It'll be UML, and it can presumably provide whatever alignment is required.
> Maybe UML needs some hacks around the whole caching issue?
Not that I can see...
Jeff
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