[PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT

[Richard Weinberger]

Yang, (Sorry if I've used your last name lately)

Am 20.08.2015 um 05:00 schrieb Dongsheng Yang:
> On 08/20/2015 04:35 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Currently UBIFS does not support direct IO, but some applications
>> blindly use the O_DIRECT flag.
>> Instead of failing upon open() we can do better and fall back
>> to buffered IO.
> 
> Hmmmm, to be honest, I am not sure we have to do it as Dave
> suggested. I think that's just a work-around for current fstests.
> 
> IMHO, perform a buffered IO when user request direct IO without
> any warning sounds not a good idea. Maybe adding a warning would
> make it better.

Well, how would you inform the user?
A printk() to dmesg is useless are the vast majority of open()
callers do not check dmesg... :)

Major filesystems implement ->direct_IO these days and having
a "return 0"-stub seems to be legit.
For example exofs does too. So, I really don't consider it a work around.

> I think we need more discussion about AIO&DIO in ubifs, and actually
> I have a plan for it. But I have not listed the all cons and pros of
> it so far.

Sure, having a real ->direct_IO would be be best solution.
My patch won't block this.

Thanks,
//richard