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Message-Id: <1168534362.7365.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:52:42 +0100 From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Aubrey <aubreylee@...il.com>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org, kenneth.w.chen@...el.com, akpm@...l.org, mjt@....msk.ru Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 à 07:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds a écrit : > > O_DIRECT is still crazily racy versus pagecache operations. > > Yes. O_DIRECT is really fundamentally broken. There's just no way to fix > it sanely. How about aliasing O_DIRECT to POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE (sortof) ? Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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