On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:44:37AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > I'm so-so on this. > > Not that way! It's a good thing that people have different experiences > and hence viewpoints. Maybe the concept of PFN sharing are > straightforward to you, while I have been playing with seq_file a lot. > > > On the downside: > > > > - requires lots of parsing > > - isn't random-access > > - probably significantly slower than pagemap > > That could be true. Maybe some user with huge datasets will give us > some idea about the performance. I don't know, maybe it's application > dependent. > > Anyway I don't think it's fair to merge a binary interface without the > challenge from a textual one ;)
Yes, that's why I didn't say I hated it. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
