Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:35:24 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice support #2 |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:51:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > splice() may not be suitable for such filesystems. > > OK, splice() cuts in at the file_operations level, so sych a clustered > filesystem _could_ implement it, but none of the code we have there will be > usable by it. If the operations in splice.c were to operate at the > file_operations level (->read, ->write) then probably they could be used > thusly.
Of course the code would be useable, same as current generic_file_* code is useable with small wrappers.
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