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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/12] hold atomic kmaps across generic_file_read
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:11:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D57C1F4.1040303@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208120018.g7C0IFN185157@saturn.cs.uml.edu

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Jeff Garzik writes:
>>I sure would like an O_STREAMING flag, though...  let a user app hint to 
>>the system that the pages it is reading or writing are perhaps less 
>>likely to be reused, or access randomly....  A copy-file syscall would 
>>be nice, too, but that's just laziness talking....
> 
> 
> You have a laptop computer with a USB-connected Ethernet.
> You mount a NetApp or similar box via the SMB/CIFS protocol.
> You see a multi-gigabyte file. You make a copy... ouch!!!
> For each gigabyte, you hog the network for an hour.

> Now let's say this file is for a MacOS app. You have to
> preserve the creator, file type, resource fork, etc.

/bin/cp has these problems regardless of whether or not it uses a 
copy-file syscall.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-12 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-10  0:57 [patch 6/12] hold atomic kmaps across generic_file_read Andrew Morton
2002-08-10  1:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10  3:53   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-10  3:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10  6:12       ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-10  7:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10  9:08           ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-10 12:44           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-10 17:01             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 18:16               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-10 18:32                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 18:46                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-10 14:16           ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-10 17:03             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 17:36           ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-10 17:46             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 17:55               ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-10 18:42                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-10 18:52                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-10 19:01                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 19:04                       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-12 15:20                       ` Ingo Oeser
2002-08-12  0:18                     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-12 14:11                       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-08-12 14:46                         ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-10 19:10                   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-10 22:42                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-11  3:17                       ` Simon Kirby
2002-08-11  6:07                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11  8:46                           ` Simon Kirby
2002-08-11  9:36                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11  9:49                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 10:28                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 18:52                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-12  3:28                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12  3:27                             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-12  4:08                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12  6:20                             ` Simon Kirby
2002-08-12  6:44                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12 19:43                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-12 20:43                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11  8:00                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-11 19:00                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-11 19:43                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-11  0:34   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-11  0:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-11  1:27       ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12  7:45   ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-12  9:45     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-12 20:29       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-12 21:21         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-12 17:30     ` Linus Torvalds

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