----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <[email protected]>
> To: "Gluster Devel" <[email protected]>, "Raghavendra Gowdappa" 
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Krutika Dhananjay" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:16:15 PM
> Subject: regarding write-behind default values for o-direct & flush behind
> 
> hi Raghavendra,
>         Krutika showed me this code in write-behind about not honoring
> O_DIRECT. 1) Is there any reason why we do flush-behind by default and
> 2) Not honor O_DIRECT in write-behind by default (strict-O_DIRECT option)?

I think both are for performance gains. If someone wants consistency with 
performance trade-offs, they should explicitly choose it. Also, please note 
that irrespective of flush-behind values, write-behind waits till all the 
previous writes are complete before unwinding flush call.

> 
> Pranith
> 
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