[linux-lvm] LVM, rawio, ext2?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 24, 2001  21:41 -0700, David Rees wrote:
> Getting off-topic now, but as far as I know, no.  Is it possible to use
> chattr or some other tool to force it to open in O_DIRECT mode?

You can get per-file synchronous I/O behaviour by using 'chattr +s <file>'.
This is not quite the same as O_DIRECT, because it still buffers the data.

Cheers, Andreas
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