On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 08:47:41PM +0100, Fabian Frederick wrote: > data=journal mount option should disable O_DIRECT access > (See Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt) but open operations > using O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_DIRECT|O_SYNC have no warning in return and file is being > created. This patch adds vfs super_operations compatibility flag function > returning -EPERM in such a case. > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> The general practice by most file systems in Linux (for better or for worse) is to silently fall back to buffered I/O instead of failing the O_DIRECT open. Feel free to try to convince linux-fsdevel otherwise, but that is the general and historical consensus of Linux file system developers. Cheers, - Ted -- 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
