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On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 21:28 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> This is what btrfs already does for O_DIRECT plus compressed, or
> other
> cases where people don't want their applications to break on top of
> new
> features that aren't quite compatible with it.

I do not know how much of direct IO we can do in UBIFS - we have
compression too, there is not block layer under us. But someone should
try and see what could be done.

Artem.