> It's just mmap'ing the whole disk into the process's address space for the > programmers sake.
BAD idea (in the sense of 'broken as designed'). You're taxing the virtual memory system in a shared-resource environment, which hurts the entire environment for a little convenience in programming. > If that turns out to be a problem we could theoretically go back to > pread/pwrite. But I'm not sure how many users have such large CMS disks? Please do. Doesn't matter if it's an edge case, it shouldn't do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
