[parisc-linux] O_DIRECT on devices

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Rodolfo Baselli wrote:
> Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> >I'm currently working on LVM2 and we want to use O_DIRECT to write the 
> >metadata
> >from userspace. so I open a partition with O_DIRECT and try to read/write 
> >the
> >data from an aligned buffer.
> 
> Hmmm, so is LVM ready for HP PA-RISC Linux? WOW!

LVM2 works fine - I use it all the time on my HP and Alpha boxes. O_DIRECT is an
optimisation I would like to have in there though cos it avoids a lot of
buffer-cache nastiness when clustering (yes, I'm working on that too but that
bit won't be GPLed)

 
> By the way, I'm reading right now "The catcher in the rye" by J.D. 
> Salinger, and as I glanced at your 2nd name I felt like I was still 
> reading the book! :-)))

:-)


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I blame my parents...

patrick