Jeff Garzik wrote:
> These are separate db4+kernel problems.
>
> The first is that there needs to be a reliable way to know if O_DIRECT
> writes are going to succeed or not. The 2.4 kernel fails on write(2)
> but not open(2) or fcntl(2).
>
> The second is that db4 doesn't appear to know about the alignment
> requirement.
The alignment requirement can be probed if necessary - by reading a
misaligned page. It's ugly, but fixable in db4.
2.4 fails on write()? A strace of "rpm --rebuilddb" shows it is
opening with O_DIRECT and writing just fine. Or does that only work
with RedHat's 2.4 kernels?
-- Jamie
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