Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:03 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:62202 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:25:33 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:27:05 -0600 To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Cc: Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: O_DIRECT support in ext3? Message-ID: <20020813172705.GG9642@clusterfs.com> Mail-Followup-To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , Kernel mailing list References: <200208131548.36267.roy@karlsbakk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208131548.36267.roy@karlsbakk.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 22 On Aug 13, 2002 15:48 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > playing around with O_DIRECT, I really _can't_ make it work on ext3? > > why is this? Because O_DIRECT needs a specific o_direct I/O method that has not yet been written for ext3. I believe only ext2 and reiserfs support it right now. I will eventually need to add support for this, but it is not yet high on my list of priorities. Maybe someone else will beat me to it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ - 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/