From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940715AbXGSRws (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:52:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762531AbXGSRwi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:52:38 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:33822 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753659AbXGSRwh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:52:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:52:07 -0700 From: Bill Irwin To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Andrew Morton , Badari Pulavarty , Bill Irwin , lkml , linux-mm , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs read() support Message-ID: <20070719175207.GH26380@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Irwin , Nishanth Aravamudan , Andrew Morton , Badari Pulavarty , lkml , linux-mm , Nick Piggin References: <1184376214.15968.9.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070718221950.35bbdb76.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1184860309.18188.90.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070719095850.6e09b0e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070719170759.GE2083@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719170759.GE2083@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > But I do think a second reason to do this is to make hugetlbfs behave > like a normal fs -- that is read(), write(), etc. work on files in the > mountpoint. But that is simply my opinion. Mine as well. -- wli