On November 20, 2010 9:07:27 pm FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:23:57 -0500 > > Neil Skrypuch <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ultimately, my question is twofold: > > > > 1) Is it intentional that rdwr does not use O_DIRECT? > > Yes, rdwr wants to exploit page cache. > > btw, with the newer versions, you can tell rdwr to use O_DIRECT. You're right, it looks like this was added in 1.0.7 with the --bsoflags switch. Barring that, it seems that it would be safe to force O_DIRECT on in the RHEL 6 version (1.0.4-3.el6) of stgt, do you agree? > > 2) Should RHEL 5 clients be able to connect successfully using aio to > > RHEL 6 targets? > > I think so. Should I file a bug somewhere then, or are these versions too old to care about? - Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
