#22 directio not used in linux

[Fabrice Bacchella]

the directio attributes is not implemented.

A small patch to have it works :
Index: fileobj.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/filebench/filebench/filebench/fileobj.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -r1.44 fileobj.c
286a287,291
> #ifdef LINUX_PORT
> if (attrs & FLOW_ATTR_DIRECTIO)
> open_attrs |= O_DIRECT;
> #endif
>

[Vasily Tarasov]

Yes, we encountered the same problem. You actually need to apply your patch at another code path (where the raw device is used). We have fixed this in our locally maintained version: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~vass/filebench/

[Vasily Tarasov]

Fixed in 1.4.9