On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:13:25AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Now, some user-space fails when direct I/O is not supported. I think the whole argument rested on what it means when "some user space fails"; apparently that "user space" is just a test suite (which can/should be fixed). > We can > chose to fake direct I/O or fix user-space. The latter seems to be the > preferred course of actions, and you are correctly pointing the man > page. > > However, if > > 1. we are the only FS erroring out on O_DIRECT > 2. other file-systems not supporting direct IO just fake it > > we may just follow the crowd and fake it too. > > I am kind of trusting Richard here - I assume he did the research and > the above is the case, this is why I am fine with his patch. > > Does this logic seem acceptable to you? Other folk's opinion would be > great to hear. Could work for me, though that doesn't seem ideal. Anyway, it now seems Christopher and Richard agree with me. Regards, Brian -- 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
