Re: [PATCH] direct IO breaks root filesystem

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
>
>   Your patch will break Goto's fix because mapping->host does not have
> correct i_mode.

Note that Goto's fix really is quite _fundamentally_ broken. Don't use it.

As explained in another email, you really should use the set-block-size
ioctl to set the correct blocksize for the device you are using. That
should work fine once the correct inode is used by the direct_io code..

		Linus