On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Hubertus Grobbel wrote:
> I found out, that the option O_DIRECT for opening a file on a fat-
> filesystem successfully completes. But reading and writing to that
> file leads to EINVAL errors (using kernel 2.6.18).

Make sure your buffer is page aligned and read/write in multiples of
the hard block size (use blockdev --getss to figure out).


Erik

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