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Ricardo Galli wrote:
> 
> > ext2 is the only filesystem which has O_DIRECT support.
> 
> Does that mean that the succesful test with ext3 and 2.4.14 is bogus?
> 

Yep.  O_DIRECT was added around 2.4.10, was tugged out for a while
and then went back in again.

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