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Message-id: <467B6168.6090508@parvan.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:43:04 -0700
From:	Reza Roboubi <reza@...van.net>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT, fdatasync_area, mwrite

Reza Roboubi wrote:
> Linus Torvalds:
>  > I suspect that this is about a few hundred lines of code (and a lot of
>  > testing). And you can emulate O_DIRECT behavior with it, along with
>  > splice (only for page-cache entities, though), and a lot of other
>  > off-by-one uses.
> ( http://lwn.net/2002/0516/a/lt-async.php3 )
> 
> I have often read this message and wondered why no one has implemented 
> it yet.  We would love to have such clean features instead of O_DIRECT. 
>  At this very moment it's a bit hard for us to do this(given a 
> prerequisites learning curve amongst other factors.)  We may at some 
> point do it and I'd love to contribute.  What _are_ the issues with it, 
>  and is there a technical reason it hasn't been implemented yet by anybody?
> 
> Further, is O_DIRECT to raw partition also unclean?

I know the top guys are very busy;  but I'd appreciate just a brief 
comment on the present situation.

Reza.
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