On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Hua Zhong wrote: > > So I'd argue that it makes more sense to support O_DIRECT > on tmpfs as the memory IS the backing store.
A few more voices in favour and I'll be persuaded. Perhaps I'm out of date: when O_DIRECT came in, just a few filesystems supported it, and it was perfectly normal for open O_DIRECT to be failed; but I wouldn't want tmpfs to stand out now as a lone obstacle. Christoph, what's your take on this? Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
