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| author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2008-07-12 20:28:33 +1000 |
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| committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2008-07-12 20:28:33 +1000 |
| commit | 6416d5275d65be25a6cd63583bb2b92e6fba95a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 23757b31666774c05c405dfd720dc92b3bb03b90 /ANNOUNCE-2.6.3 | |
| parent | 908ef18519f7d5780ebf00b19b913f8282eb4175 (diff) | |
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Use O_DIRECT for all IO to devices.
Using buffered IO risks non-atomic updates to parts of the
device that we don't actually want to write to. This isn't in
general safe.
So switch to O_DIRECT for all that IO and make sure we have
properly aligned buffers.
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