[Ocfs-users] Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs Vs ocfs2

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Wed Jan 17 14:56:31 PST 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:06:37AM -0800, Luis Freitas wrote:
>      It is not using o_direct only if the coreutils package was not installed on the RH3.0 machine. (coreutils-4.5.3-41.i386.rpm ).
>    
>   http://oss.oracle.com/projects/coreutils/files/
>    
>      If it is installed, then both tests are using O_DIRECT, and can be compared.

	You have to specify o_direct parameters to get O_DIRECT.
Otherwise, it still stays buffered.  And you did not list o_direct
parameters on your dd(1) command line.

Joel

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