Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:47:02 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: open(.. O_DIRECT ..) difference in between Linux and FreeBSD .. |
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:12:57AM +0200, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > FYI: > It appears that somewhere between RH kernels 2.4.18-27.7.x and 2.4.20-18.9 > something has changed so that my application needs a O_SYNC too besides > the O_DIRECT to make sure that writes will be synchronous. If I leave > the O_SYNC out with 2.4.20-18.9 the write will happen physically 35 > seconds after the write() was done.
O_DIRECT is nothing but a hint and the 2.4.20-18.9 kernel decides to not honor it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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