Some information about direct-io support on ubifs

[Richard Weinberger]

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi" <michael at amarulasolutions.com>
>> >>> I would like to have some information on how to implement direct-io
>> >>> support in ubifs. I have tried to mount squashfs image as file in
>> >>> ubifs using loopback and direct-io but it seems that loop can not
>> >>> handle when this is on top of ubifs. From what I understand from the
>> >>> code it seems that the requirement is that the direct-io is
>> >>> implemented in the filesystem where the file is stored. I have
>> >>> simulated using nand sim. The idea is to reduce the buffering. I'm
>> >>> open to have other suggestions regarding this too.

Why are you using UBIFS anyway for this? Just place the squashfs inside
an UBI volume.

Thanks,
//richard