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
next prev parent 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
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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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