O-direct on ext3 file ssytem

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:22, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> ext3 supports direct i/o, but not in 2.4 mainline. It was added in 2.6. 

> > my system is running :
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update
> > 2)
> > Kernel 2.4.21-15.ELsmp on an i686
> 
> 2.4-aa, 2.4-suse, 2.4-wolk tree and some others have it, 2.4-rh kernels do not 
> have it.

2.4 RHL kernels did not; RHEL 3 does, so 2.4.21-15.EL will have it.

--Stephen