From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Clarifying Direct I/O Semantics
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:04:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821230404.GA5931@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Mec4O-0005ka-NN@closure.thunk.org>
On Aug 21, 2009 17:54 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Clarifying_Direct_IO's_Semantics
>
> P.S. For people who are too lazy to click on the above link, here's the
> version of the page as of this writing :-)
>
> = Introduction =
>
> The exact semantics of Direct I/O (O_DIRECT) are well specified. It is
Umm, "NOT well specified"?
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 21:54 RFC: Clarifying Direct I/O Semantics Theodore Ts'o
2009-08-21 22:28 ` jim owens
2009-08-22 0:07 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-22 13:25 ` Lawrence Greenfield
2009-08-22 20:40 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-21 23:04 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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