Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT

[Dongsheng Yang]

On 08/24/2015 03:18 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 15:34 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 13:40 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > > > Basically, we need to see what is the "common practice" here, and
> > > > follow it. This requires a small research. What would be the most
> > > > popular Linux FS which does not support direct I/O? Can we check
> > > > what
> > > > it does?
> > >
> > > All popular filesystems seem to support direct IO.
> > > That's the problem, application do not expect O_DIRECT to fail.
> > >
> > > My intention was to do it like exofs:
> >
> > Fair enough, thanks!
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Richard, you mention this was suggested by Dave, could you please pint
> to the discussion, if possible?

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-August/060702.html

That's in a discussion I want to introduce ubifs into xfstests.

Yang
> Artem.
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