Hi all :)
I don't know if the patch to backport O_DIRECT support for ext3
under kernel 2.4.3x was finally accepted or not, but I'm having what
I consider inconsistent behaviour due to O_DIRECT under ext3fs and
kernel 2.4.32.
I can understand that ext3 doesn't support O_DIRECT, and that's
not a problem for me. In fact, if an app really needs O_DIRECT and
the underlying filesystem doesn't support it, the app should fail, no
more and no less.
The problem I'm having is with dvd+rw-tools. Apart from all the
problems regarding DVD writing, I have another problem: the open64
call with the O_DIRECT flag succeeds, but any subsequent read
operation fails. IMHO, if the filesystem is going to return EINVAL
for any read/write operation over an O_DIRECT'ed filehandle, it
should return an error when opening, too.
The growisofs program tries to open a file using O_DIRECT and the
call succeeds, so it tries to read from that filehandle and the
result is always EINVAL. I've tried a test program, just in case the
problem was memory alignment of the buffer, but nothing is solved (I
used posix_memalign and some recipe I found in this list, using the
st_blksize and the st_size of the file). The problem seems to be in
the O_DIRECT flag, because removing it from the open call makes all
work.
Shouldn't ext3fs return an error when the O_DIRECT flag is used
in the open call? Is the open call userspace only and thus only libc
can return such error? Am I misunderstanding the entire issue and
this is a perfectly legal behaviour (allowing the open, failing in
the read operation)?
Thanks a lot in advance :)))
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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