Re: [PATCH 17/18] [GFS2] Remove support for unused and pointless flag

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The ability to mark files for direct i/o access when opened
> normally is both unused and pointless, so this patch removes
> support for that feature.
[Snipped...]

So linux is no longer going to support commercial databases?
Oracle and others need the O_DIRECT attribute. Linux can
probably igonore it, but such an open cannot fail or else
Linux gets thrown out of the commercial enterprise when
an upgrade disables an entire financial institution.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.28 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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