Hi, The loop direct I/O patches[1] have been merged to linus kernel tree and will be released in v4.4. So the two patches provide interfaces for using direct IO/AIO in losetup. include/loopdev.h | 4 ++++ lib/loopdev.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sys-utils/losetup.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc07c10a3603a5ab3ef01ba42b3d41f9ac63d1b6 V1: - support to set direct IO for 'new' device, such as loseutp --direct-io 1 -f test.img Thanks, Ming -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
