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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 10:24:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <211490000.1012663460@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020202093554.GA7207@tapu.f00f.org>
In-Reply-To: <E16WkQj-0005By-00@antoli.uib.es> <3C5AFE2D.95A3C02E@zip.com.au> <1012597538.26363.443.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20020202093554.GA7207@tapu.f00f.org>



On Saturday, February 02, 2002 01:35:56 AM -0800 Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:05:38PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
>     > ext2 is the only filesystem which has O_DIRECT support.
> 
>     And XFS ;-)
> 
> I sent reiserfs O_DIRECT support patches to someone a while ago.  I
> can look to ressurect these (assuming I can find them!)
> 
> Chris Mason is always going to be a better source for these anyhow, he
> certainly understands any complex nuances there may be.  Chris, do you
> have any cycles to comment on this please?

I've dug your patch out of my archives, it should be safer now that
we've got the expanding truncate patch into the kernel (2.2.18pre).  
I'm porting it forward now.

thanks,
chris


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-02 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 20:37 O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS Ricardo Galli
2002-02-01 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-01 20:49   ` Ricardo Galli
2002-02-01 20:57     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-01 21:05   ` Steve Lord
2002-02-02  9:35     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-02 10:25       ` Hans Reiser
2002-02-02 15:24       ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-02-02 18:20       ` Chris Mason
2002-02-02 19:54         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-02 20:10           ` Chris Mason
2002-02-02 20:16             ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-02 20:50               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-03 13:40                 ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-03 14:09                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 15:05                     ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-03 22:44                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-04 15:04                         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 15:21                           ` Chris Mason
2002-02-04 15:15                         ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 15:46                           ` Alan Cox
2002-02-04 16:02                             ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 18:22                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-04 19:11                                 ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 18:29                             ` Joel Becker
2002-02-04 18:49                               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 18:55                                 ` Joel Becker
2002-02-04 19:16                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] <E16WkQj-0005By-00@antoli.uib.es.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <3C5AFE2D.95A3C02E@zip.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <1012597538.26363.443.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <20020202093554.GA7207@tapu.f00f.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]       ` <234710000.1012674008@tiny.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]         ` <20020202205438.D3807@athlon.random.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]           ` <242700000.1012680610@tiny.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]             ` <3C5C4929.5080403@sgi.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]               ` <20020202155028.B26147@havoc.gtf.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-02-03  7:26                 ` Andi Kleen
2002-02-04 15:13                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 15:31                     ` Chris Mason

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