[PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 05:34:08 PDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 13:40 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Basically, we need to see what is the "common practice" here, and
> > follow it. This requires a small research. What would be the most
> > popular Linux FS which does not support direct I/O? Can we check 
> > what
> > it does?
> 
> All popular filesystems seem to support direct IO.
> That's the problem, application do not expect O_DIRECT to fail.
> 
> My intention was to do it like exofs:

Fair enough, thanks!

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at intel.com>



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