O_DIRECT on 2.4 ext3

O_DIRECT on 2.4 ext3

[Junfeng Yang]

Hi,

I tried to read from a regular ext3 file opened as O_DIRECT, but got the
"Invalid argument" error.  Running the same test program on a block device
succeeded.

uname -a shows
Linux ******* 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 20 11:02:39 JST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux

My test case is
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <asm/fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>

#define BLK (4096U)
main()
{
	char buf[BLK * 2];
	char *p = (char*)((((unsigned)buf) + (BLK-1)) & ~(BLK-1));
	int fd, l;

	fprintf(stderr, "buf = %p, p = %p\n", buf, p);
	if((fd=open("sbd0", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT)) < 0) {
		perror("open");
		assert(0);
	}
	if((l=pread(fd, p, BLK, 0)) < 0) {
		perror("pread");
		assert(0);
	}
	fprintf(stderr, "pread returns %d\n", l);
	close (fd);
}

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks,
-Junfeng

Re: O_DIRECT on 2.4 ext3

[Andreas Dilger]

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On Mar 01, 2005  21:34 -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> I tried to read from a regular ext3 file opened as O_DIRECT, but got the
> "Invalid argument" error.  Running the same test program on a block device
> succeeded.

ext3 doesn't support the direct_IO method in 2.4 kernels, though there
was a patch at one time.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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