Message-ID: <1440074048.31419.204.camel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
        linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:34:08 +0300
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On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 13:40 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Basically, we need to see what is the "common practice" here, and
> > follow it. This requires a small research. What would be the most
> > popular Linux FS which does not support direct I/O? Can we check 
> > what
> > it does?
> 
> All popular filesystems seem to support direct IO.
> That's the problem, application do not expect O_DIRECT to fail.
> 
> My intention was to do it like exofs:

Fair enough, thanks!

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
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