Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT
To: dedekind1@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:35:56 +0200
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Am 24.08.2015 um 11:34 schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 01:03 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:02:42AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>> Back when we were writing UBIFS, we did not need direct IO, so we
>>> did
>>> not implement it. But yes, probably someone who cares could just
>>> try
>>> implementing this feature.
>>
>> So I think the answer here is to implement a real version insted of
>> adding hacks to pretend it is supported.
> 
> Fair enough, thank for the input!

Agreed. Let's drop this patch. :)

Thanks,
//richard
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