From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:59:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505095952.GC9935@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463B55F9.4070606@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:49:13PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> How about providing a way to stop kernel (or filesystem) to make gaps
> in files instead? Like some ioctl(fd, FS_NOGAPS, 1) -- pretty much
> like 'doze has, just the opposite (on windows, this flag is "on" by
> default).
Giving filesystems non-hole semantics is non-trivial. Not allowing
for holes creates a lot of complications in unix-like filesystems.
> But the main point is that samba has to keep track of things which it
> doesn't do now, and those things becomes.. interesting (difficult if
> at all possible to track) in multi-user/concurrent-writes environment.
Samba is there to deal with a braindead protocol and braindead clients,
so let it continue to do that. No need to push this into the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 20:43 Ext3 vs NTFS performance Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-01 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 12:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 16:04 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 18:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 19:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 16:16 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 18:08 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-05-02 19:34 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 20:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 22:01 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-02 3:54 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-05-02 15:46 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 15:44 ` David Chinner
2007-05-02 19:46 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 0:15 ` David Chinner
2007-05-03 12:57 ` Chris Mason
2007-05-03 21:14 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-03 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-04 8:12 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 14:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-05-04 15:49 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-04 18:41 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-05 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-06 20:59 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-04 12:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-04 19:40 ` Valerie Henson
2007-05-04 18:56 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-04 19:52 ` Cabot, Mason B
2007-05-07 14:31 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-12 23:47 ` Update: " Cabot, Mason B
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2007-05-03 3:51 Al Boldi
2007-05-05 3:13 Xu CanHao
2007-05-05 13:45 ` Theodore Tso
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[not found] ` <8huGm-2W4-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-05 22:25 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-06 5:04 ` Xu CanHao
2007-05-06 1:48 Albert Cahalan
[not found] <8gShI-3hY-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h1bh-8sG-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8h2Al-280-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8hW9y-2Lp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-07 11:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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