On Wednesday 09 July 2003 20:50, Trond Myklebust wrote:
Hi Trond,
> So they have both XFS + NFS O_DIRECT?
yes.
> The answer to your question is then that somebody made the trivial
> conversion on XFS... It's just a question of replacing the second
> argument of the direct_IO() method with a filp, then extracting the
> inode from that. A 2-liner patch at most...
EXACT! That was my intention with my small first post ;)
> The point here is that Marcelo's tree does not include XFS, so my
> patch can't fix it up...
> As I said, I suggest replacing KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT with
> KERNEL_HAS_O_DIRECT2 so that the XFS patches can switch on that, and
> hence provide the 2-liner on newer kernels...
It's very okay with me.
ciao, Marc
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