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Message-ID: <20150824080350.GA17815@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:03:50 -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 11:02:42AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Back when we were writing UBIFS, we did not need direct IO, so we did
> not implement it. But yes, probably someone who cares could just try
> implementing this feature.

So I think the answer here is to implement a real version insted of
adding hacks to pretend it is supported.
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