On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:07:08PM +1200, James Braid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently trying to get AIO and XFS (from Andrea's tree,
> 2.4.20pre8aa1) to work together. At the moment, AIO works fine on my
> ext3/2 filesystems, but it breaks on XFS. (This is from doing a make check
> in the libaio source directory (I'm using Andrea's version of libaio
> btw)).
> Is XFS and AIO a hopeless combination or is it actually possible to get
> them to work together? If so, does anyone have any pointers on where I
> would start to look for the right bits of code to hack together?
> Or even better, has anyone got AIO and XFS working already?
Of course it's possible. But it's not trivial. I'd suggest you wait
for aio getting fully implemented in 2.5, you can be sure we'll adds supporti
for XFS there as soon as possible.
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