On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:24:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > IMO sys_readahead() doesn't make sense if the file is opened with > > O_DIRECT, because the page cache is stuffed but never used. Therefore > > this patch changes that by letting the call return with -EINVAL. > > > > a) It doesn't hurt, it's just a bit of a silly thing to do.
For ocfs that only allows either direct or buffered I/O on a single inode at a given time it hurts. It messes up the synchronization protocol to be exact.. - 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/
