Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2008 15:44:44 +0300 (EEST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.26 patch] fuse: add flag to turn on big writes |
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On Fri, 9 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > > Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests. In > theory all fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k > writes, as there's nothing in the API to prevent it. Unfortunately > there's a known case in NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem > corruption. There could also be other filesystems, where the lack of > testing with big write requests would result in bugs. > > To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by > default, but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > CC: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Big thanks Miklos!
Acked-by: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Szaka
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