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authorKeith Bostic <keith@wiredtiger.com>2013-05-13 09:13:40 -0400
committerKeith Bostic <keith@wiredtiger.com>2013-05-13 09:13:40 -0400
commit3e1824119a4c5b823014f6b47bf6a58dc840ddf3 (patch)
tree7aece79f574330181b0df685538b09240927770b
parent014499da26d35f8c72279f3c37b3c467dfc910aa (diff)
parentf360dc9d52cf8747686dba806880ff8f0b16c2af (diff)
downloadmongo-3e1824119a4c5b823014f6b47bf6a58dc840ddf3.tar.gz
Merge branch 'develop' into file-extend
-rw-r--r--src/docs/spell.ok1
-rw-r--r--src/docs/tuning.dox3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/docs/spell.ok b/src/docs/spell.ok
index 53ae036d830..ebfd0942ea1 100644
--- a/src/docs/spell.ok
+++ b/src/docs/spell.ok
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ hrow
hsearch
html
huffman
+iflag
indices
init
intl
diff --git a/src/docs/tuning.dox b/src/docs/tuning.dox
index d20aa952fe4..889c2728d5e 100644
--- a/src/docs/tuning.dox
+++ b/src/docs/tuning.dox
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ map a file which is configured for direct I/O.
- If \c O_DIRECT is configured for data files on Linux systems, any
system utilities used to copy database files for the purposes of hot
backup should also specify \c O_DIRECT when configuring their file
-access.
+access. A standard Linux system utility that supports \c O_DIRECT is
+the \c dd utility, when using the \c iflag=direct command-line option.
Additionally, many Linux systems require specific alignment for buffers
used for I/O when direct I/O is configured, and using the wrong