Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265766AbTGNHyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:54:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270552AbTGNHyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:54:23 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.254] ([81.2.110.254]:12793 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265766AbTGNHyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:54:23 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' From: Alan Cox To: Rob van Nieuwkerk Cc: Jamie Lokier , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030714000324.GA29094@verdi.et.tudelft.nl> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <20030712152406.GA9521@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F103018.6020008@pobox.com> <20030712112722.55f80b60.akpm@osdl.org> <20030712183929.GA10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F105B9A.7070803@pobox.com> <20030712193401.GD10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F1063AD.40206@pobox.com> <20030712194624.GF10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030713085118.V4482@schatzie.adilger.int> <20030714000324.GA29094@verdi.et.tudelft.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058169566.561.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 14 Jul 2003 09:01:09 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 19 On Llu, 2003-07-14 at 01:03, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > ext3 in 2.4 kernels does not support O_DIRECT. To confuse matters, > > recent RH kernels silently ignore O_DIRECT if you are not root, so > > you may think O_DIRECT is being used, but it isn't. > > Modern RH kernels also ignore O_DIRECT if you are root: O_DIRECT is > completely disabled/ignored. > > I suspect it is because gcc-3.2.2-5 (in RH9) does not compile 2.4 > O_DIRECT correctly .. Wrong guess. - 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/