Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello, : :hmm, once again me. And again with a probably not so common problem. :I need to replicate files, exactly like they are! :I thought cpio was the deal, but no way, I tried several -H formats but=20 :that hasn't changed anything. As soon as a file gets restored the flag=20 :...

Re: cpio and tar are loosing flags (and a panic message without trace)

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Thank you, I know cpdup but I haven't known that it's flags aware! :Unfortunately I need to write to a raw device, I guess there's no way for=20 :cpdup without a filesystem... : :I guess cpio and tar really should take care about flags. Am I wrong? : :Thanks, : :=2DHarry cpio won't do it,

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
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Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: := pre-faulting is best done by a worker thread or child process, or it := will just slow you down.. : :Read is also used for large files sometimes, and never tries to prefetch :the whole file at once. Why can't the same smarts/heuristics be employed :by the page-fault handling code --

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
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Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
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Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
into a small buffer. -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: read vs. mmap (or io vs. page faults)

2004-06-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
page across the mmap(), before you begin any processing). -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] := It's hard to say. mmap() could certainly be made more efficient, e.g