From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de>
Subject: Re: hugetlbfs not working
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:35:42 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080327163542.GC8659@dmt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EBC6D4.3070803@qumranet.com>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:09:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> > If you don't bail when ftruncate fails, does it work as expected for
> > you? Perhaps older versions of hugetlbfs didn't support truncate.
>
> If you don't truncate, how can you change the file size? hugetlbfs
> doesn't support write().
>
> I vaugely recall using ftruncate() on 2.4.
hugetlbfs will automatically adjust the file size on mmap().
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 15:10 hugetlbfs not working Alexander Graf
2008-03-27 15:19 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-27 15:30 ` Alexander Graf
2008-03-27 16:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-27 16:09 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-27 16:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2008-03-27 21:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
[not found] ` <47EC9302.40103@qumranet.com>
2008-03-31 17:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-03-31 17:17 ` Avi Kivity
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