Re: [PATCH] remove broken direct I/O size ioctl

[Nathan Scott]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This ioctl tries to second guess direct I/O parameters which aren't
> a filesystem drivers business and shouldn't be exposed as an ioctl
> to start with.

Unfortunately there are some applications that will now start
to see errors from this ioctl if we go this route - whereas
before they would've been "functional", now they will break.
So, I think we need a different solution here.  Yes, I agree
its a stupid call to have on Linux, but here we are, and apps
ported straight from IRIX have been made to use this.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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