Hi, On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:55:32AM +0100, Ian Leonard wrote: > I have checked 2.4.18 and 2.5 kernels and there seems to > be an interface but no actual implementation. > > It has been suggested that it only works with ext2 but we > need ext3. That's right. But the ext2 is pretty much only a wrapper around a generic_direct_IO function, so it would be pretty easy to use that same wrapper for ext3. It would be tricky to make it work with data=journal mode, but the other data modes ought to be easy to get going. Cheers, Stephen