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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Oeser)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mcelrath+linux@draal.physics.wisc.edu (Bob McElrath)
Subject: Re: Editing-in-place of a large file
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 02:31:58 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15diak-0000mq-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010903032439.A802@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> from "Ingo Oeser" at Sep 03, 2001 03:24:39 AM

> Another solution for the original problem is to rewrite the file
> in-place by coping from the end of the gap to the beginning of
> the gap until the gap is shifted to the end of the file and thus
> can be left to ftruncate().

Another approach would be to keep your own index of blocks and use that
for the data reads. Since fdelete and fzero wont actually relayout the files
in order to make the data linear (even if such calls existed) there isnt
much point performancewise doing it in kernel space - its a very specialised
application

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-03  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-02 20:21 Editing-in-place of a large file Bob McElrath
2001-09-02 21:28 ` COW fs (Re: Editing-in-place of a large file) VDA
2001-09-09 14:46   ` John Ripley
2001-09-09 16:30     ` John Ripley
2001-09-10  2:43       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-10  2:58         ` David Lang
2001-09-09 17:41     ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-10  1:29       ` John Ripley
2001-09-10  6:45         ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2001-09-14 10:06         ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-10 11:11       ` Ihar Filipau
2001-09-10 16:10         ` Kari Hurtta
2001-09-14 10:03     ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-10  9:28   ` VDA
2001-09-10  9:35     ` John P. Looney
2001-09-02 21:30 ` Editing-in-place of a large file Ingo Oeser
2001-09-03  0:59   ` Larry McVoy
2001-09-03  1:24     ` Ingo Oeser
2001-09-03  1:31       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-09-03  1:50         ` Ingo Oeser
2001-09-03 10:48           ` Alan Cox
2001-09-03 14:31             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-03 14:46             ` Bob McElrath
2001-09-03 14:54               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-03 15:42                 ` Doug McNaught
2001-09-03 15:11               ` Richard Guenther
2001-09-03 21:19             ` Ben Ford
2001-09-03  4:27       ` Bob McElrath
2001-09-03  1:30     ` Daniel Phillips

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