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In userspace, we want to be able to switch to buffered IO when we're dealing with an image on a filesystem/device that doesn't support the blocksize the filesystem was formatted with. This plumbs through !opts.direct_io -> FMODE_BUFFERED, which will be supported by the shim version of blkdev_get_by_path() in -tools, and it adds a fallback to disable direct IO and retry for userspace. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.