Re: Possible O_DIRECT problems ?

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
21 Dec 2001 01:23:45 +0100


>>>>> " " == Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> writes:

> Andrea, lk,
> I just experimented with O_DIRECT in conjunction with fsx,
> and the results aren't pretty.

> Over NFS it survives around 921 operations, all local
> filesystems (ext2,ext3,reiser tested) just 6 operations. I've
> put the source to a modified fsx at
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/fsx-odirect.c

Dave,

O_DIRECT for NFS isn't yet merged into the kernel. Are these Chuck
Lever's NFS patches you've been testing?

Cheers,
Trond
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