[Gluster-devel] how does meta xlator work?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Anand Avati <avati at gluster.org> wrote:

> That may / may not work well in practice depending on the number of
> concurrent apps working on a file. 

I am not sure what could make a FS decide that for the same file, one
file descriptor should use direct I/O and another should not.

Keeping the flag at file descriptor level would require VFS modification
in the kernel: the filesystem knows nothing about file descriptors, it
just know vnodes. It could be done, but I expect to meet resistance :-)

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