Re: [PATCH v11 00/21] Add support for NV-DIMMs to ext4

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Sep 30 2014 - 10:54:05 EST


On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:48:54 -0400, Matthew Wilcox said:

> No, it doesn't try to do that. Wouldn't you be better served with an
> LD_PRELOAD that forces O_DIRECT on?

Not when you don't want it on every file, and users are creating and
deleting files once in a while. A chattr-like command is easier and
more scalable than rebuilding the LD_PRELOAD every time the list of
files gets changed....

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