This might be a question asked before, but I just couldn't effectively search the whole archives, So please bear me and kindly advise. We have a 3rd party application (video streaming kind of) which uses directIO (O_DIRECT). On the server side, in the posix translator, we added the "option o-direct enable" On the client side, we mounted as "mount -t glusterfs -o direct-io-mode=enable server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs" But the application still fails with error (cannot create/open file with O_DIRECT). Then we trace to the fuse module in the kernel, which has following checking: int fuse_open_common(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool isdir) { struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode); int err; /* VFS checks this, but only _after_ ->open() */ if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) return -EINVAL; err = generic_file_open(inode, file); looks like regardless what we configure on the gluster side, the FUSE still rejects the O_DIRECT. Could someone shed light ? we're also trying to take out the O_DIRECT checking in FUSE module, to see what will happen, will report soon. Bill Bao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120314/e6686c39/attachment.htm>