Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 15:57:15 EST

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Ricardo Galli wrote:
>
> > ext2 is the only filesystem which has O_DIRECT support.
>
> Does that mean that the succesful test with ext3 and 2.4.14 is bogus?
>

Yep. O_DIRECT was added around 2.4.10, was tugged out for a while
and then went back in again.

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