On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:23:18 -0800, Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Friday, March 18, 2005 11:12 AM -0500 Ryan Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > funny, I took the list of exceptions to be so large and hard to > > maintain that it made more sense to go with Jeff's original idea of > > just disabling sendfile by default unless a user specifically decided > > to enable it. I just had to debug a problem for a friend with > > sendfile on Linux. I don't know what caused the problem, but > > disabling sendfile solved it immediately. Seems to me that until our > > sendfile support is better, we should err on the side of always > > sending the data correctly instead of absolutely as fast as possible. > > I absolutely refuse to punish users who are using good OSes because some OSes > are brain-dead.
ouch, add one more brain-dead OS to the list: FreeBSD; some levels have had filesystems which don't handle sendfile correctly (same type of issue which hits some Linux users)
