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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	taka@valinux.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:17:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020416001749.GY23513@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020411.164134.85392767.taka@valinux.co.jp> <20020411.203823.67879801.taka@valinux.co.jp> <20020411.043614.02328218.davem@redhat.com> <200204111257.g3BCvOX10348@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20020411151616.A1239@wotan.suse.de>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:16:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:00:37PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On 11 April 2002 09:36, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > No, you must block truncate operations on the file until the client
> > > ACK's the nfsd read request if you wish to use sendfile() with
> > > nfsd.
> > 
> > Which shouldn't be a big performance problem unless I am unaware
> > of some real-life applications doing heavy truncates.
> 
> Every unlink does a truncate. There are applications that delete files
> a lot.

Is this true at the filesystem level or only in memory?  If so, I could
immagine that it would make it much harder to undelete a file when you don't
even know how big it was (file set to 0 size)...

Why is this required?  Could someone say quickly (as I'm sure it's probably
quite complex) or point me to some references?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-16  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020410.190550.83626375.taka@valinux.co.jp.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-10 19:32 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Andi Kleen
2002-04-11  2:30   ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11  6:46     ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11  6:48       ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11  7:41         ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11  7:52           ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 11:38             ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 11:36               ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 18:00                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 13:16                   ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-11 17:36                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-16  0:17                     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-04-16 15:37                       ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-11 17:33             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-12  8:10               ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:30         ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:35           ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-12 21:22             ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-12 21:31               ` David S. Miller
2002-04-13  0:21                 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-13  6:39                   ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-13  8:01                     ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-13 19:19                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-13 19:37                       ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-13 20:34                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-24 23:11                           ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-25 17:11                             ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-13 18:52                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14  0:07                   ` Keith Owens
2002-04-14  8:19                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14  8:40                       ` Keith Owens
2002-04-12 21:39             ` David S. Miller
2002-04-15  1:30               ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-15  4:23                 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-16  1:03                   ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-16  1:41                     ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-16  2:20                       ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18  5:01                       ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18  7:58                         ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-18  8:53                         ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19  3:21                           ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-19  9:18                             ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-20  7:47                               ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-25 12:37                                 ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR. Was " Terje Eggestad
2002-04-26  2:43                                   ` David S. Miller
2002-04-26  7:38                                     ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29  0:41                                     ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR David Schwartz
2002-04-29  8:06                                       ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29  8:44                                         ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 10:03                                           ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 10:38                                             ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 14:20                                               ` Terje Eggestad
     [not found]                               ` <200204192128.QAA24592@popmail.austin.ibm.com>
2002-04-20 10:14                                 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-20 15:49                                   ` Andrew Theurer
2002-04-10 10:05 Hirokazu Takahashi

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