Re: [PATCH] O_DIRECT for ext3 (2.4.21)

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
17 Jun 2003 15:49:17 +0100


Hi,

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 12:01, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi all
>
> I've been waiting for the official O_DIRECT on ext3 for some time now, so I
> thought perhaps it's time to get it into 2.4.22 or so. The patch I've used, is
> the one below (for 2.4.21):

This is Andrea's patch, and it has a few problems which I've been fixing
(like allowing direct IO in journaled data mode --- bad move --- and a
couple of casting errors, nothing hugely problematic.) Please don't
apply this, I'll send updated code later today.

Cheers,
Stephen

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