Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:34:27 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation |
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Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > right now direct io write to a hole is actually handled by buffered IO. > If so, there must be some valid reason that I could not see now.
Oh yes, that's right. It's all to do with the fixes which went in a year ago to prevent concurrent readers from peeking at uninitialised disk blocks.
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