TextureBuffer objects may use osg::Texture::bindToImageUnit(), so GLSL shaders are able to use not only texelFetch() function , but also functions defined in GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store extension : imageLoad(), imageStore(), imageAtomicAdd() etc."
second email: "After a while I found that osg::Texture::applyTexParameters() used with TextureBuffer may cause some OpenGL errors ( applying texture filters and wraps to TextureBuffer makes no sense ) so I fixed it."