From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Special Kernel Modification
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:22:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111051422.JAA01263@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2001 21:30:38 PST." <E160cLH-0001Nw-00@localhost>
bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org said:
> Nope, last I checked O_DIRECT enforces buffer and file offset
> alignment. Normal apps wouldn't work very well at all.
Except that the apps won't be the ones doing O_DIRECT IO. It'll be UML, and
it can presumably provide whatever alignment is required.
> Maybe UML needs some hacks around the whole caching issue?
Not that I can see...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-05 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-05 0:01 Special Kernel Modification Lonnie Cumberland
2001-11-05 0:19 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-05 0:29 ` lonnie
2001-11-05 1:04 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-11-05 3:04 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-06 0:34 ` Jorgen Cederlof
2001-11-06 0:38 ` lonnie
2001-11-05 0:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-05 0:39 ` Phil Sorber
2001-11-05 0:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-05 1:04 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-11-05 1:58 ` Jeff Dike
2001-11-05 2:14 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-05 4:02 ` Jeff Dike
2001-11-05 3:13 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-05 5:52 ` Jeff Dike
2001-11-05 5:30 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-05 14:22 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2001-11-05 16:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-05 20:18 ` Jeff Dike
2001-11-05 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-05 0:37 John Weber
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[not found] ` <200111050552.AAA06451@ccure.karaya.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-05 6:22 ` Andi Kleen
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