Re: O_DIRECT broken in stock 2.4.13

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:50:48 -0800

* Terje Eggestad (terje.eggestad@scali.no) wrote:
> Hi
>
> open( , O_DIRECT) succeds, fcntl set and unset of the O_DIRECT flag is
> ok, but I get buffered writes anyway.
>
> This works in 2.4.10

iirc, this was disabled shortly after 2.4.10 (like 2.4.11-pre1 or 2).
i believe the flag is still valid, however, i think the direct_io internals
were removed.

cheers,
-chris
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