On Llu, 2003-07-14 at 01:03, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > ext3 in 2.4 kernels does not support O_DIRECT. To confuse matters,
> > recent RH kernels silently ignore O_DIRECT if you are not root, so
> > you may think O_DIRECT is being used, but it isn't.
>
> Modern RH kernels also ignore O_DIRECT if you are root: O_DIRECT is
> completely disabled/ignored.
>
> I suspect it is because gcc-3.2.2-5 (in RH9) does not compile 2.4
> O_DIRECT correctly ..
Wrong guess.
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