* Andrew Morton: > I don't think it's a bug. Sure, O_DIRECT is synchronous, but that's > because it is, err, direct. Not because it provides extra data-integrity > guarantees. If you want those guarantees, use O_SYNC as well. This needs to be prominently documented. Right now, it's far from clear that you need both O_DIRECT and O_SYNC. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
