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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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  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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