Re: Curious about mount options and Direct IO.

[Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:05, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:59:12PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> > What benefits, if any, would we see by using direct IO with XFS on
> > very large FS?(like 300 and 500GB FS)
> 
> It depends what you are doing...

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. 

Our app is Oracle, but I can't see that anything will really benefit
beyond relieving the logging(logbufs=8).

 
> 
>   --cw