Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available(1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Martin von Loewis
> I would love to move inode metadata to the page cache. That would simplify > so much in the NTFS driver and would result in an incredible speed boost > due to getting rid of all the silly copying of data back and forth inside > the driver as we could just pass pointers around instead (to lock

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Martin von Loewis
> Yes and no. They will be uncompressed but not when opening the inode. It > will be "uncompress required extent's run list on demand". Are you sure this can work? Initially, I thought I could use the attribute list to only uncompress the extend that has the VCN I'm interested in. That would no

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Martin von Loewis
> >That would not work: NT would split individual runs across extends > >(i.e. split them in the middle). Did I misunderstand, or do you have a > >solution for that as well. > > > Are you sure that it's true? My NTFS resizer interprets parts of runlist > stored in different FILE records independe

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-29 Thread Martin von Loewis
> > Anyone know about 3.1? > > > > It's an HPFS variant. No. NT was using NTFS right from the start. Regards, Martin - 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-