On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:17 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
> I was thinking of a use case where we are copying a huge file (say 100
> GB), if we do copy-on-write we can speed up /bin/cp for such files i
> feel. Any comments on this?
Hmm.. wait a minute. What definition of "copy on write" are yo
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:06:36AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:48:08 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
>
> > I was interested in implementing copy-on-write for my filesystem(for fun
> > :P). When I do a "cp" operation, I do not want to create a seperate
> > inode for the n
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:48:08 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
> I was interested in implementing copy-on-write for my filesystem(for fun
> :P). When I do a "cp" operation, I do not want to create a seperate
> inode for the new file. I only want to create a inode when I make a
> change to the file.
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:03:20PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On 23/03/2019 17:59, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> [..]
> > I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> > writing our own filesystem in linux.
> > VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I t
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 03:01:56PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:29:45 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
>
> > I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> > writing our own filesystem in linux.
> > VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:29:45PM +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> writing our own filesystem in linux.
> VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and
> write when we execute the co
Hi all!
On 23/03/2019 17:59, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
[..]
> I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> writing our own filesystem in linux.
> VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and
Yes.
> write when we execute the copy the file/dir.
>
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:29:45 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said:
> I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> writing our own filesystem in linux.
> VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and
> write when we execute the copy the file/dir.
Which y
Hey everyone,
I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
writing our own filesystem in linux.
VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and
write when we execute the copy the file/dir.
I am interested in overwriting the way copy happens in my
file
