Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 00:04:28 EST


> > And we agreed that this is 2.5 material.
>
> the O_DIRECT and blkdev in pagecache yes but definitely not the VM one
> but people needed those features in production anyways so that was good
> and they were well tested.

The O_DIRECT stuff is very clean - its definitely a feature that should
have gone into 2.5 first and then back, but its one that really doesn't
bother me too much. blkdev in page cache needs some locking thinking but
looks ok.

Alan
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