Re: O_DIRECT write to file by block-aligned, block-multiple buf fails?

[Scott McDermott]

Andreas Dilger on Thu 15/05 00:04 -0600:
> On May 15, 2003  01:33 -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> > This should mean I can write aligned pages with direct
> > IO, right?
> > 
> >         write: Invalid argument
> > 
> >         $ grep /tmp /proc/mounts
> >         /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp ext3 rw 0 0
> 
> ext3 does not support O_DIRECT in 2.4 yet.

should open() on an ext3-based file fail when O_DIRECT is
among the flags?