Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin

2007-04-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that one, sorry. The values it obtains that way are not reliable. Why should the mount point info together with the filesystem type not be reliable? You're trying to find an excuse to break tings, that seems all there is. - To

Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin

2007-04-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly for fstatfs(): fstatfs() has no way of looking up mount points per path name in /proc/mounts, and so it resorts to mapping from the numeric statfs-f_type to the filesystem name (e.g., ext3), looks up the first mount point with

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
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Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
. Add to then the block granularity (we use f_bsize as returned from fstatfs but that's not the best value in some cases) and you have compelling data to have generic code in the kernel. Then libc implementation can then go away completely which is a good thing. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
this unless compression is turned off. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
already been written posix_fallocate cannot change it. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
implementation of memory mapped files. You don't use MAP_SHARED on such filesystems, it'll eat your kittens sooner or later anyway. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
at runtime) then the code is dropped. E.g., the current Fedora glibc does not support 2.6.8 or earlier. So, don't let the compat code be a factor in the decision making. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Ulrich Drepper
a mmap(MAP_SHARED) page has been written to. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-02 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 3/2/07, Dave Kleikamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then there's no need for sys_allocate to return a long. Every syscall must return a long. Otherwise you can have problems on 64-bit archs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
in glibc in case the syscall does not exist at all. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [take35 0/10] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2007-02-12 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: I think that mean that everybody is happy with APi, design and set of features. No comment means that I still have not been able to test anything since regardless of what version I tried, it failed to build. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-17 Thread Ulrich Drepper
it is up to the proponents of readdirplus to show this is not such a situation. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-17 Thread Ulrich Drepper
and this means then that there is no long file path to follow, all file names are local to the directory opened with opendir(). My but feeling is that the improvements are minimal for normal (not cluster etc) filesystems and hence the improvements for kernel.org would be minimal. -- ➧ Ulrich

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-16 Thread Ulrich Drepper
. Also, implementing the compatibility support for this (statlite-stat(), flags=$all_valid) is trivial, if potentially less performant (though no worse than today). We're not talking about statlite. The ls case is about getdirentplus. I fail to see evidence that it is really needed. -- ➧ Ulrich

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-15 Thread Ulrich Drepper
useful to introduce a new system call just to have this support. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
is really only useful for 'ls -l'. But then you need st_size and st_?time. So what is gained with readdirplus? -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
is provided the readdirplus plans are put on hold. statlite I have no problems with if the semantics is changed as I explained. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-12-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
and there is no 'statlite' variant. Are all places for readdir is used non-critical for performance or depend on accurate information? -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body

Re: 64-bit inode numbers (was: glibc 2.1.96)

2000-10-30 Thread Ulrich Drepper
functions. glibc 2.1 has a define option (__USE_FILE_OFFSET64) which enables this by default; No, __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 is no option. This is an libc internal macros which you never ever must look at. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulri