I do not like it. Setting O_DIRECT to the flags is an option which should be set in the filesystem, not in the general library. I'm working on a overlay fs with various backends, like a normal (part of) partition on a ATA harddisk, a USB stick, a Cdrom, a mounted SMB share.... and it is able to set the O_DIRECT flag, but always per backend. Stef 2011/7/22 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Anand Avati <avati@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> but do not permit setting of O_DIRECT flag via fcntl() (or unsetting) > > Again, some more verbose description would be good, as well as a -- 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
