>> Of course, still better would be to fix vnd, though I'm not sure
>> what the right fix would be.
> What's the problem?
The problem I am familiar with with vnd and sparse files - which
admittedly may not be the same as the one others have been talking
about - is that using a sparse file to back
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:58:16AM +, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:07:13PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > Of course, still better would be to fix vnd, though I'm not sure what
> > the right fix would be.
>
> What's the problem? My vague understanding was that you could get
hi,
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:07:13PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > Of course, still better would be to fix vnd, though I'm not sure what
> > the right fix would be.
>
> What's the problem? My vague understanding was that you could get into
> deadlocks allocating blocks, but maybe I'm confusi
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:07:13PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Of course, still better would be to fix vnd, though I'm not sure what
> the right fix would be.
What's the problem? My vague understanding was that you could get into
deadlocks allocating blocks, but maybe I'm confusing it with someth
> I think that the sparseness check should stay until vnd supports
> sparse files.
It already does, under some circumstances (eg, NFS-remote).
I _would_ prefer to see an override for cases like NFS, or where the
values returned trip the test even though the file is not sparse in the
sense vnd car
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:42:50PM +, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
> no problem to use a sparse files on nfs. dsl, is it ok?
I think that the sparseness check should stay until vnd supports
sparse files. I think that betwee
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:42:50PM +, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
>> no problem to use a sparse files on nfs. dsl, is it ok?
>
> Given it doesn't work for local files and they are more common I don't
> think sparse fil
On Sun Feb 06 2011 at 00:08:33 +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> yamt@ wrote:
>
> > i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
> > no problem to use a sparse files on nfs.
>
> We really want vnd on sparse files for emulator images...
I have this in my /etc/fstab:
/home/pooka/temp
yamt@ wrote:
> i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
> no problem to use a sparse files on nfs.
We really want vnd on sparse files for emulator images...
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Izumi Tsutsui
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:42:50PM +, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
> no problem to use a sparse files on nfs. dsl, is it ok?
Given it doesn't work for local files and they are more common I don't
think sparse files should be
hi,
i'd like to remove the sparseness check in vnd because there's
no problem to use a sparse files on nfs. dsl, is it ok?
YAMAMOTO Takashi
revision 1.205
date: 2009/12/06 16:33:18; author: dsl; state: Exp; lines: +23 -3
Make vnd_size (the returned size) 64 bit, keeping old field for ioctl
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