similar to: O_DIRECT support

I doubt that this is actually an ext3 problem so I'm taking a bit of a liberty, but... We have several machines that have two ext3 partitions (/, /boot) and a large raw partition. Something happened that destroyed both the ext3 partitions on all machines. I appears that the app writing to the raw partition had a bug that caused it to write to negative block numbers and that this wrote all

Hi, We have been using ext3 with numerous machines and they take quite a bit of abuse without incident. This morning I got a call to say that a power cut had rendered one box unbootable. Investigations revealed that the /boot partition was in good order. An fsck of / also showed things to be well - except that the partition was completely empty - except for /lost+found. It might appear that

Our Invoice posting routine (intensive harddrive io) freezes every few seconds to flush the cache. Reading this: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-November/msg00070.html I decided to try: # elvtune -r 2048 -w 131072 /dev/sda # echo "90 500 0 0 600000 600000 95 20 0" >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush # run_post_routine # elvtune -r 128 -w 512 /dev/sda # echo "30 500 0 0

Hi We currently use rsync for various jobs at our company. We are now looking at using it to create an offsite synchonised copy of an Oracle 10g RAC archive logs area. The source area is on Oracle OCFS filesystem. The OCFS filesystem requires all reads/writes to be performed with the O_DIRECT option, thus bypassing cache. Oracle provide an updated coreutils package which includes the

In config file, ''*type=ioemu*'' is added with vif . Does it make the difference if we don''t add. Because i did not notice any difference in para as well as full virtulization. Same as in case of exporting the disk to Guest dom. Is it just a placeholder or else ? Second thing, I am running RHEL3 as a HVM DomU on xen-3.0.4. Every thing works fine, but i had a problem to

Get this warning on bootup ext3 file checks on 2.6.* kernels. Apparently harmless, but how do I fix this? _______________________________________________ debian-knoppix mailing list debian-knoppix at linuxtag.org http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix

Add parenthesis to wrap the check for O_DIRECT. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com> --- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c index 06ccf6a..b2ca980 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c @@ -2013,8 +2013,8 @@ out_dio: /* buffered aio wouldn't have proper lock coverage today

Does samba 3.0.23c not support the use of O_DIRECT? When I try to open an smbmount'd file using O_DIRECT, I get EINVAL. I am able to use O_DIRECT with no problems on a block device and nfs mounts, so I know the kernel supports it. samba: 3.0.23c kernel: 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL (32-bit) I am using the below code for my test. smb fails on open(2). #include <fcntl.h> #include

Hi all, We are observing a consistent interval of about 4 minutes at which there are large sustained writes to disk that causes mysqld to block and not respond for the entire period. We are using data=journal with a 128M journal and the filesystem is 150GB in size. We get about 300kb/sec in writes and that will jump to about 2000kb/sec during the periods of large sustained writes. Those

Guys, posted this last week and had no response so far. Just posting again in case anyone missed it. I really could do with knowing as it's delaying the rollout of a new project I'm working on. Thanks, Simon -- Hi We currently use rsync for various jobs at our company. We are now looking at using it to create an offsite synchonised copy of an Oracle 10g RAC archive logs area. The

It'd be pretty cool if rsync supported use of O_DIRECT on platforms that support it, with or without my odirect package: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/odirect/ I say this because rsync is sometimes used to move a mountain of data, just once. So there's little point in rsync toasting one's buffer cache. I gather there's something like O_DIRECT on windows too, but it's

Hello, Just became curious - is O_DIRECT already supported on ext3 or not yet? And a little bit offtopic :). Is that flag supported on some other filesystem other than ext2? Thanks, Mindaugas

I'm lacking some understanding of how to tune / when to tune /proc/sys/vm/bdflush Where can I read up on this? Our current problem: Load is low, but ever so often the system decides to do some serious disk I/O which causes all processes to wait for disk I/O -- load explodes (rises linear up into the 20-30ies) just to fall linearly (spelling?) right after that. We think there might be some

Hello everyone, I am learning and evaluating a glusterfs for film/video editing facilities. Some major film/video editing realtime applications are using the O_DIRECT file access for video/audio data files. The GLFS client via fuse mechanism is disallow the open file with O_DIRECT flag. I made a little sample code for read a file with O_DIRECT flag, and tried open the files on GLFS volumes. It

Although tapdisk has been instead of tapdisk-ioemu, but it still used on some old xen-3.2. So fix a performance problem here. -- Kernel aio will retry when encounter a block doesn''t allocated, then do async io, but O_DIRECT flag was there, so io_wait on sync data. And clean a little code style. Signed-off-by: Wei Kong <weikong.cn@gmail.com>

Is it possible (planned?) to make rsync avoid going through system cache and use direct IO? Right now, if you decide to backup your desktop system (but it's not only about desktop systems; rather more about one-time-only data transfers) to external disk, you will notice that your X session lags terribly, mainly because: - system caches everything what rsync reads from the original drive,

All, Long ago Xen added code to the device model to basically do an fsync() after every data write if the user in the guest specified that IDE write caching should be disabled. This works fine, except in the case where you are doing O_DIRECT writes inside the guest (ala dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb oflag=direct). This is because you can get out of ide_write_dma_cb() in the middle of the loop

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:59:05AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > Hi, > > > > > On Thu, 23 May 2013, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > > > Hi, all > > > > > > I use O_DIRECT to open disk images for IDE, but I'm failed. After debug, I get > > the below logs: > > > [2013-05-22 23:25:46] ide: CMD=c8 > > > [2013-05-22 23:25:46] bmdma:

Another question. When my database is running, I do [oracle@LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]$ cp --o_direct xdb01.dbf /tmp cp: cannot open `xdb01.dbf' for reading: Permission denied [oracle@LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]$ When the database is shudown it works. Is this normal for ocfs because with any other filesystem I can just copy a file at any time (Its only a testing, I know I cant copy datafiles and have

Andrew, can you please send this on to Linus and -stable ASAP? It's causing massive problems for our users. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:50:59PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Hi, > > commit c2c6ca4 (direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous > requests) introduced a bug whereby all O_DIRECT I/Os were submitted a > page at a time to the block layer. The problem is that the