On Mar 01, 2005 21:34 -0800, Junfeng Yang wrote: > I tried to read from a regular ext3 file opened as O_DIRECT, but got the > "Invalid argument" error. Running the same test program on a block device > succeeded.
ext3 doesn't support the direct_IO method in 2.4 kernels, though there was a patch at one time. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/ http://members.shaw.ca/golinux/
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