Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:16:08PM +0200, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> > I plan to use O_DIRECT in my application (on a partition, no fs).
> > It is hard to find info on the exact requirements on the mandatory
> > alignments of buffer, offset, transfer size: it's easy to find many
> > contradicting documents. And checking the kernel source itself isn't
> > trivial.
>
> In 2.4, your buffer, offset, and transfer size must be soft
> blocksize aligned. That's the output of BLKBSZGET against the block
> device. For unmounted partitions that is 512b, for most people's ext3
> filesystems that is 4K. It is, FYI, the number set by set_blocksize().
Hi Joel,
Thank you for your reaction.
I get 4096 with BLKBSZGET on several unmounted partitions on my system
(RH 2.4.18-27.7.x kernel). Some give 1024 .. Maybe it is because I
had them mounted first and unmounted them for the test ?
greetings,
Rob van Nieuwkerk
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