From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO by default a good idea?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:28:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YW5zsImhomMNmII7@gardel-login> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211018150550.GA29993@lst.de>
On Mo, 18.10.21 17:05, Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 04:19:20PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > A brief answer like "yes, please, enable by default" would already
> > make me happy.
>
> I thikn enabling it by default is a good idea. The only good use
> case I can think of for using buffered I/O is when the image has
> a smaller block size than supported on the host file.
Excellent! Thanks for the answer!
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-18 14:19 Is LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO by default a good idea? Lennart Poettering
2021-10-18 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-19 7:28 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2021-10-19 7:44 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 12:24 ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-25 10:37 ` Karel Zak
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