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mke2fs: add option to use direct I/O (mke2fs -D)
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:00:49 +0000 (16:00 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:00:49 +0000 (16:00 -0400)
commit37c8db7b2078d0310e5676404e21cc143d8e4d56
tree4cf7d579e487ef2dfe7f14092e70237514c254a5
parent010c49cf499738c7a06de13077f31f2a12ecadeb
mke2fs: add option to use direct I/O (mke2fs -D)

This can be useful when using mke2fs on loaded servers, since
otherwise mke2fs can dirty a huge amount of memory very quickly,
leading to other applications not being happy at all.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
lib/ext2fs/initialize.c
misc/mke2fs.8.in
misc/mke2fs.c