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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:18:25 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...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

Chris Mason <clm@...com> writes:

>> I do think we should at least document what file systems appear to be
>> doing.  Here's a man page patch for open (generated with extra context
>> for easier reading).  Let me know what you think.
>
> We shouldn't be ignoring it, but instead call it similar to O_DSYNC plus
> removing the pages from cache.

Ah, right.  I'll fix that up, thanks.

-Jeff
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