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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:00:43 +0800
From:	Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
CC:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	<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 08/24/2015 04:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I had a plan for it. But it's for 4.4 or 4.5 in my plan.

Yang
> .
>

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