On 04/22/2014 07:21 PM, Peter Schiffer wrote: > Hello Michael, > > the sentence in open(2) man page in notes for O_DIRECT flag: > "Under Linux 2.6, alignment to 512-byte boundaries suffices." > > is not universally correct. The alignment is a property of the storage, > for example, 4k-sector drives with no 512 byte sector emulation will be > unable to perform 512-byte direct I/O. > > The patch clarifies this sentence. Thanks very much for that patch, Peter. It clears up my (mis)understanding! Applied. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
