On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:28:15AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ext3 journals data. That's unique and it breaks things (or rather,
> things break it). It'd be trivial to support O_DIRECT in ext3's
> writeback mode (metadata-only), but nobody uses that.
I thought everybody uses metadata-only to avoid killing data-write
performance. So I thought it was ok to at first support O_DIRECT only
for metadata journaling, doing that should be a three liner as you said
and that is what I expected.
> >From a quick look it seems that we'll need fs-private implementations
> of generic_direct_IO() and brw_kiovec() at least.
brw_kiovec is called by generic_direct_IO, so yes, all you need is a
private generic_direct_IO implementation to deal with the journaled data
writes.
> I'll take a closer look.
OK, thanks!
Andrea
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