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Bug 102006

Summary: fileutils needs O_DIRECT support for OCFS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Chris Runge <crunge>
Component: fileutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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dd O_DIRECT patch none

Description Chris Runge 2003-08-08 19:56:01 UTC 
Description of problem:

The latest version of fileutils lacks O_DIRECT support for cp/dd files from OCFS
filesystems. up2dating to this version breaks this capability.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

fileutils-4.1-10.1.i386.rpm

Additional info:

Oracle (S)RPMS with this support at 
http://oss.oracle.com/~wcoekaer/ocfs/redhat/RPMS/fileutils/
Comment 1 Chris Runge 2003-08-08 19:56:43 UTC 
Created attachment 93536 [details]
O_DIRECT patch
Comment 2 Chris Runge 2003-08-08 19:57:09 UTC 
Created attachment 93537 [details]
dd O_DIRECT patch
Comment 3 Chris Runge 2003-08-08 19:57:52 UTC 
attached two patches from Oracle SRPM which I believe add the support

The reporting customer is Verizon Wireless
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2003-08-18 09:35:20 UTC 
Where should this be built?
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2003-09-05 10:53:32 UTC 
*ping*

Should this be done as an RHBA?
Comment 8 Chris Runge 2003-09-05 13:02:05 UTC 
The customer would like an official, supported fix for this.
Comment 9 Mark J. Cox 2003-11-03 15:24:41 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-309.html