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    SubjectRe: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK


    On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

    > On Wednesday 09 July 2003 19:46, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
    >
    > Hi Marcelo,
    >
    > > > > > > I just got a nice XFS oops due to the direct_IO API change in
    > > > > > > 2.4. Guys, this is a STABLE series and APIs are supposed to be
    > > > > > > exactly that, _STABLE_. If you really think O_DIRECT on NFS is soo
    > > > > > > important please add a ->direct_IO2 for NFS like the reiserfs
    > > > > > > read_inode2 hack.
    > > >
    > > > I wonder why -aa and -wolk don't have these problems with O_DIRECT vs.
    > > > XFS.
    > > Do they have the NFS DIRECT IO patch?
    > Yes. If not, my sentence would be superflous ;)

    Ok, right. Well, I dont know why it doesnt happen there. Maybe not enough
    testing?

    Anyway, I'm going to revert the NFS DIRECT IO patch because, as Christoph
    mentioned, breaks the API.

    I except another solution from Trond (maybe ->direct_IO2).

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