From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:57:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:57:20 -0500 Received: from cerebus.wirex.com ([65.102.14.138]:11762 "EHLO figure1.int.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:57:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:50:48 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Terje Eggestad Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: O_DIRECT broken in stock 2.4.13 Message-ID: <20011114125048.A32600@figure1.int.wirex.com> Mail-Followup-To: Terje Eggestad , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1005747508.1310.3.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1005747508.1310.3.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>; from terje.eggestad@scali.no on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:18:28PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Terje Eggestad (terje.eggestad@scali.no) wrote: > Hi > > open( , O_DIRECT) succeds, fcntl set and unset of the O_DIRECT flag is > ok, but I get buffered writes anyway. > > This works in 2.4.10 iirc, this was disabled shortly after 2.4.10 (like 2.4.11-pre1 or 2). i believe the flag is still valid, however, i think the direct_io internals were removed. cheers, -chris