Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: open(.. O_DIRECT ..) difference in between Linux and FreeBSD .. | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:27:52 +0200 | From | Rob van Nieuwkerk <> |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:12:57AM +0200, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > > FYI: > > It appears that somewhere between RH kernels 2.4.18-27.7.x and 2.4.20-18.9 > > something has changed so that my application needs a O_SYNC too besides > > the O_DIRECT to make sure that writes will be synchronous. If I leave > > the O_SYNC out with 2.4.20-18.9 the write will happen physically 35 > > seconds after the write() was done. > > O_DIRECT is nothing but a hint and the 2.4.20-18.9 kernel decides to not > honor it
Hi Arjan,
Do you mean that the 2.4.20-18.9 kernel always ignores the O_DIRECT flag ?
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