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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>,
	"Doug O'Neil" <DougO@seven-systems.com>,
	lk <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LFS Support for Sendfile
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 15:36:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C8218C3.6080204@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <036801c1bfee$b5b0f780$1801010a@Mauser> <m34rk2tn7h.fsf@varsoon.denali.to> <20020228100325.O23151@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20020302222451.GB9590@tapu.f00f.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
>    The API (kernel syscall) as defined does not support LFS.
>
>I wonder does it really need to?  I mean, a loop calling sendfile for
>2GB (or whatever) at a time is almost as good, if not better in some
>ways.
>
>    The "extent based" filesystems offer flatter performance, and
>    while I can't determine if ReiserFS is exactly of that type, it
>    too offers fast and flat performance.
>
>Reiserfs (v3) isn't extent based but does perform pretty well.  When I
>was messing large numbers of with (what at the time were) large files
>of 50GB or so, XFS proved to be very effective.
>
>
>  --cw
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extents are in reiserfs v4.0 (September ship date), and should offer 
much improved performance for large files.

Hans



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-03 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-28  0:27 LFS Support for Sendfile Doug O'Neil
2002-02-28  1:22 ` Doug McNaught
2002-02-28  8:03   ` Matti Aarnio
2002-03-02 22:24     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-03-03 12:36       ` Hans Reiser [this message]
     [not found] <fa.inaf1vv.one4p5@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.esfhmsv.bku814@ifi.uio.no>
2002-03-03  5:08   ` Dan Maas
2002-03-03  5:34     ` Andrew Morton

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