On Friday 09 July 2004 01:42, david x chan wrote: Hi David, > Does anybody know whether the ext3 file system > support Direct_io? if so, how do you enable it? > I went through the man page of mount, and it did > not mention such option? ext3 supports direct i/o, but not in 2.4 mainline. It was added in 2.6. Further direct i/o isn't a mount option. Please read http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.1/1213.html for example. > my system is running : > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update > 2) > Kernel 2.4.21-15.ELsmp on an i686 2.4-aa, 2.4-suse, 2.4-wolk tree and some others have it, 2.4-rh kernels do not have it. -- ciao, Marc _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
