[parted-devel] [PATCH] Fall back to not using O_DIRECT

[Olaf Hering]

On Wed, Aug 06, Jim Meyering wrote:

> I agree wholeheartedly that arch-specific #ifdefs are best
> avoided, but am a little leery of removing O_DIRECT altogether.
> However, I'm currently leaning towards accepting this.
> Has this change been tested much?

Its a result of this bug, the patch is used since one year.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290087