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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Steve Whitehouse <Steve@ChyGwyn.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File perforation.
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:16:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23614.1042067811@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301082317.XAA16132@gw.chygwyn.com>


steve@gw.chygwyn.com said:
> So presumably a suitable advice value FADV_CLEAR (for example) could
> be  used as an addition to the POSIX values ? 

Nothing else that fadvise() offers actually changes the file. They're all 
optional -- if the kernel ignores your fadvise() call you can't even prove 
that it's done so. I'm not sure it's a good fit.

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 22:06 File perforation David Woodhouse
2003-01-08 22:28 ` Eli Carter
2003-01-08 22:34   ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-08 22:56     ` Eli Carter
2003-01-08 23:14       ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-09  1:22         ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-09  3:23           ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-08 23:17     ` Steven Whitehouse
2003-01-08 23:16       ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-01-08 23:36         ` Steven Whitehouse
2003-01-08 23:25           ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-10  1:39         ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-08 22:45 ` Dave Kleikamp
2003-01-08 22:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-01-08 23:02   ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-11  9:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-10  1:34 ` Bryan Henderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-10 22:24 Steven French
2003-01-11  1:46 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-01-13  3:52 Steven French

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