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SubjectRe: Read support for fat_fallocate()? (was [v2] fat: editions to support fat_fallocate())
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On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 20:36 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> writes:

> > Or, if we cannot make any changes to the on-disk format, what about
> > keeping such a database in memory, allocating some of the existing free
> > list to files that have had fallocate() called on them? (Naturally,
> > this makes it non-persistent, and instead more of a 'hint', but could at
> > least solve our mutual performance issues).
>
> [...]
>
> Hm. My concerns are compatibility and reliability. Although We can
> change on-disk format if need, but I don't think it can be compatible
> and reliable. If so, who wants to use it? I feel there is no reason to
> use FAT if there is no compatible.
>
> Well, anyway, possible solution would be, we can pre-allocate physical
> blocks via fallocate(2) or something, but discard pre-allocated blocks
> at ->release() (or before unmount at least). This way would have
> compatibility (no on-disk change over unmount) and possible breakage
> would be same with normal extend write patterns on kernel crash
> (i.e. Windows or fsck will truncate after i_size).

That would certainly give me what the Samba NAS with USB FAT disk use
case needs.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org




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