[linux-cifs-client] It works

studdugie studdugie at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 02:24:51 GMT 2006


Thanx.
On 1/5/06, Steven French <sfrench at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> > difference between directio and forcedirectio
>  They are synonyms when used as mount parms for cifs.
>
>  Most lkml kernel discussion about directio refers to the open flag though -
> not a mount option which affects all opens on the mount.   For cifs it was
> easier to get most of the benefit of directio by disabling local caching for
> the whole mount via the directio (forcedirectio) mount option.  Some
> filesystems (unlike cifs) also restrict directio to be on block boundaries
> which seemed counterproductive.
>
>
>  Steve French
>  Senior Software Engineer
>  Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
>  phone: 512-838-2294
>  email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com


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