And may I safely cast to (unsigned char *) instead of (char *) at directio.c::137 ? There is a compilation warning there as is. Regards, On jeu, 2005-08-11 at 16:44 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > I've implemented yet another path checker, based on O_DIRECT. > Rationale: On S/390 it's possible to activate multipath support for DASD > devices (called Parallel Access Volume (PAV)). As these are no SCSI > devices the readsector0 path checker wouldn't work. > And as this checker is quite generic it'll work for just about anybody. > -- christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx>