Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932279AbVKUUkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:40:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932460AbVKUUkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:40:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16526 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932279AbVKUUkF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:40:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:39:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kenny Simpson Cc: cel@citi.umich.edu, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: infinite loop? with mmap, nfs, pwrite, O_DIRECT Message-Id: <20051121123950.5afadab9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121184032.80469.qmail@web34101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <438208A1.5020300@citi.umich.edu> <20051121184032.80469.qmail@web34101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 453 Lines: 11 Kenny Simpson wrote: > > ext3 doesn't let you use pwrite with O_DIRECT ext3 does permit that. See odwrite.c from http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz - 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/