Hello! Do you know if Samba supports Direct I/O using the O_DIRECT flag on Linux? And if so, which configuration flag would be responsible for it? Thus far I couldn't find any documentation on it. Thank you! Christian
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:45:12AM +1300, Christian Blume via samba wrote:>Hello! > >Do you know if Samba supports Direct I/O using the O_DIRECT flag on >Linux? And if so, which configuration flag would be responsible for >it? Thus far I couldn't find any documentation on it.No, we don't currently use O_DIRECT on Linux. It doesn't match to SMB2+ semantics. What advantage do you think you might get from O_DIRECT ?