Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2001 04:00:16 +0100 (MET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing |
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Hi,
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> But... But with AFFS you _have_ exclusion between block-allocation and > truncate(). It has no sparse files, so pageout will never allocate > anything. I.e. all allocations come from write(2). And both write(2) and > truncate(2) hold i_sem. > > Problem with AFFS is on the directory side of that business and there it's > really scary. Block allocation is trivial...
Block allocation is not my problem right now (and even directory handling is not that difficult), but I will post somethings about this on fsdevel later. But one question is still open, I'd really like an answer for: Is it possible to use a per-inode-indirect-block-semaphore?
bye, Roman
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