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Re: Curious about mount options and Direct IO.

To: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Curious about mount options and Direct IO.
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 24 Oct 2002 16:44:03 -0500
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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O_DIRECT is not a mount option, you open a file with that flag, and do
I/O in a prescribed fashion.  You can't "magically" get O_DIRECT
behavior across a filesystem with just a mount option.

An old paper on what O_DIRECT is, is at
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/papers/html/AArcangeli-o_direct.html

-Eric

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:10, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> I agree, but I guess my question was a general question about XFS's
> capabilities to actually do anything in a DIO mode.I didn't see any
> mount options for DirectIO, just osyncisdsync. 


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