From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268370AbTGLTYK (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:24:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268376AbTGLTYK (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:24:10 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17036 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268370AbTGLTYJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:24:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1063AD.40206@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:38:21 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lokier CC: Andrew Morton , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <20030712152406.GA9521@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F103018.6020008@pobox.com> <20030712112722.55f80b60.akpm@osdl.org> <20030712183929.GA10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F105B9A.7070803@pobox.com> <20030712193401.GD10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030712193401.GD10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > 2.4 fails on write()? A strace of "rpm --rebuilddb" shows it is > opening with O_DIRECT and writing just fine. Or does that only work > with RedHat's 2.4 kernels? Are you testing on a filesystem where an O_DIRECT is not supported? The "it works" case is not an issue. Jeff