Is there any command available to enable O_DIRECT on a extX filesystem ?

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Issue

  • Is there any command available to enable O_DIRECT on a ext4 filesystem ?
  • How to enable O_DIRECT on any file system, so that data is directly written to disk without using the cache?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ALL)

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