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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:21:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402060000.1012836065@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C5EA30D.8B51C639@mandrakesoft.com>
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On Monday, February 04, 2002 10:04:45 AM -0500 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:

> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:05:04AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
>> 
>>     I agree is is not a big issue in this case - my interpretation of
>>     tails was the end of any file could be packed, but if it is only
>>     small files.....
>> 
>> But you can't mmap (say) a 1k file right now...  so right now this
> 
> huh?  You can mmap a file of any size > 0.  Is this a reiserfs
> limitation or something?
> 

No, reiserfs can mmap files of size 1k.  Data past the end of file is
zerod on write.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-04 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 20:37 O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS Ricardo Galli
2002-02-01 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-01 20:49   ` Ricardo Galli
2002-02-01 20:57     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-01 21:05   ` Steve Lord
2002-02-02  9:35     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-02 10:25       ` Hans Reiser
2002-02-02 15:24       ` Chris Mason
2002-02-02 18:20       ` Chris Mason
2002-02-02 19:54         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-02 20:10           ` Chris Mason
2002-02-02 20:16             ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-02 20:50               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-03 13:40                 ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-03 14:09                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 15:05                     ` Stephen Lord
2002-02-03 22:44                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-04 15:04                         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 15:21                           ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-02-04 15:15                         ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 15:46                           ` Alan Cox
2002-02-04 16:02                             ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 18:22                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-04 19:11                                 ` Steve Lord
2002-02-04 18:29                             ` Joel Becker
2002-02-04 18:49                               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 18:55                                 ` Joel Becker
2002-02-04 19:16                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
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     [not found]               ` <20020202155028.B26147@havoc.gtf.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-02-03  7:26                 ` Andi Kleen
2002-02-04 15:13                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-04 15:31                     ` Chris Mason

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