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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:58:37AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:19:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I really don't see the point of all this crap. All this for the loop
> > driver? If so, it had better at least be prettier than it is.
>
> It's for anyone trying to to direct I/O from kernel space. I have
> patches that speed up ecryptfs and allow sane operation for the file
> backed scsi target based on this that have been collecting dust for a
> while.

Can you post those patches somewhere? If that's the end goal of this
patch series, we should be able to look at them too.


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