What do filesystemio_options and disk_asynch_io Do?

From Metalink note 432854.1

What do filesystemio_options and disk_asynch_io Do?
disk_asynch_io is a kind of master switch, which turns on or off Async I/O to database files on any type of storage, whether it's raw device or filesystem. The filesystemio_options parameter gives finer control over I/O to database files on filesystems. It allows you to turn off async I/O to filesystem files but keep async I/O to raw devices if the "master" switch disk_asynch_io is set to true.

Instance initialization parameter filesystemio_options has four options:
1. "asynch" : means buffered I/O + Async I/O
2. "directIO" : means Direct I/O only
3. "setall" : means Direct I/O + Async I/O
4. "none" : disables Async I/O and Direct I/O

One should always use at least Direct I/O with OCFS/OCFS2. In fact one does not have choice as the database automatically adds that mode whenever it sees the file is on an OCFS volume or OCFS2 volume mounted with the datavolume mount option.
If the user wants aio with OCFS/OCFS2, use setall.
If the user wants aio with ASM/ASMlib, he is expected to set filesystemio_options=setall and disk_asynch_io=true, this is because ASM's io is transparent to RDBMS, but these 2 parameters will impact the behaviors of RDBMS, please see Note 413389.1 .