linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:53:24 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:13:25AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 1. we are the only FS erroring out on O_DIRECT
> 2. other file-systems not supporting direct IO just fake it

There are lots of file systems not supporting O_DIRECT, but ubifs might
be the most common one.  Given that O_DIRECT implementations aren't
hard, so what's holding back a real implementation?
--
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/