Hi Hugh and others, In 2007, there were some discussions on whether to allow opens to specify O_DIRECT for files backed by tmpfs.[1][2] On the surface, it sounds like a completely crazy thing to do. However, distributions like Fedora are now defaulting to using a tmpfs /tmp. I'm not aware of any applications that open temp files using O_DIRECT, but I wanted to get some new discussion going on whether this is a reasonable thing to expect to work. Thoughts? Cheers, Jeff [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/55 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/482031 -- 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
