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19.3.2 PIOS I/O Modes<br />

There are several supported PIOS I/O modes:<br />

POSIX I/O:<br />

This is the default operational mode where I/O is done using standard POSIX calls,<br />

such as pwrite/pread. This mode is valid on both Linux and Solaris.<br />

DIRECT I/O:<br />

This mode corresponds to the O_DIRECT flag in open(2) system call, and it is<br />

currently applicable only to Linux. Use this mode when using PIOS on the ldiskfs<br />

filesystem on an OSS.<br />

COW I/O:<br />

This mode corresponds to the copy overwrite operation where filesystem blocks that<br />

are being overwritten were copied to shadow files. Only use this mode if you want<br />

to see overhead of preserving existing data (in case of overwrite). This mode is valid<br />

on both Linux and Solaris.<br />

19-12 <strong>Lustre</strong> <strong>1.6</strong> <strong>Operations</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> • September 2008

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