Re: punching holes in files

2007-11-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
= BYTE_OFFSET_IN_FILE_TO_PREALLOCATE_TO; if (!SetFileInformationByHandle(f, FileAllocationInfo, ai, sizeof(ai))) { // Failed. return 1; } Hope this is of some use to use... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix

Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP

2007-10-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
] drop_cap_sys_rawio_for_fibmap.patch, is of course, not to be applied until any remaining issues are fixed :) Thanks, Mike Waychison -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux

Re: [RFC 0/2] Case-insensitive filename lookup for XFS

2007-10-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Barry, On 24 Oct 2007, at 08:39, Barry Naujok wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:07:47 +1000, Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to say: If you do what I did for NTFS you can also throw away your custom dentry operations that your patch adds as the dcache then only holds

Re: [RFC 0/2] Case-insensitive filename lookup for XFS

2007-10-23 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
regards, Anton Other TODOs: - support for case-insensitve extended attributes as a separate mount option. - Other xfsprogs updates: xfs_repair, xfs_db -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH

Re: [RFC 0/2] Case-insensitive filename lookup for XFS

2007-10-23 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
loads... Best regards, Anton On 23 Oct 2007, at 11:01, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Hi, On 23 Oct 2007, at 08:53, Barry Naujok wrote: Following is the initial test version of case-insensitive support for XFS in Linux. It implements case-insensitivity utilising a Unicode case folding table

Re: RFC: Case-insensitive support for XFS

2007-10-06 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On 6 Oct 2007, at 07:37, Brad Boyer wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:10:23PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: But the default does not matter for NTFS. At mount time, the upcase table stored on the volume is read into memory and compared to the default one. If they match perfectly

Re: [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries

2007-09-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
the existing one and export it or the existing one should go away and the inline should be used. It seems silly to have two functions with different names doing exactly the same thing! Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support

Re: [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries

2007-09-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 19 Sep 2007, at 09:09, David Rientjes wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h === --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h 2007-09-17 21:46:06.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6

Re: [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries

2007-09-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 19 Sep 2007, at 10:19, David Rientjes wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Although it may cause a problem as highmem.h also includes mm.h so a bit of trickery may be needed to get it to compile... I suspect that is_vmalloc_addr() should not be in linux/mm.h at all

Re: [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries

2007-09-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 19 Sep 2007, at 18:29, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I suspect that is_vmalloc_addr() should not be in linux/mm.h at all and should be in linux/vmalloc.h instead and vmalloc.h should include linux/ highmem.h. That would be more sensible than

Re: [rfc/patch] ntfs reduce syslog noise

2007-07-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
something about it... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: [PATCH RFC] extent mapped page cache

2007-07-26 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
muddy though so it is not a very enjoyable experience falling/being thrown into it. Nice for punting on though when the weather is nice. (-: Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH

Re: [RFC] fsblock

2007-06-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
into extents (bio sized), and the result is completely full of dark dark corner cases. I do think fsblocks is a nice cleanup on its own, but Dave has a good point that it makes sense to look for ways generalize things even more. -chris -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace

Re: [PATCH resend] introduce I_SYNC

2007-06-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
() and is avoided by ilookup5_nowait(). This deadlock is inherent to what NTFS does so you don't need to worry about it. (If you want I am happy to explain it but I would rather not waste my time explaining if no-one except me cares about it...) Best regards, Anton -- Anton

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 3 May 2007, at 08:49, Andreas Dilger wrote: On May 02, 2007 20:57 +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:36:12AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: HSM_READ is definitely _NOT_ required because all it means is if the file is OFFLINE, bring it ONLINE and then return

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 2 May 2007, at 09:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 1 May 2007, at 23:30, Andreas Dilger wrote: On May 01, 2007 14:22 +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:44:01PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: Hmm, I'd thought offline would migrate to EXTENT_UNKNOWN, but I didn't I

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 2 May 2007, at 10:15, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 1 May 2007, at 15:20, David Chinner wrote: So, either the filesystem will understand the flag or iff the unknown flag is in the incompat set, it will return EINVAL or else

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 2 May 2007, at 10:15, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: And all applications will run against a multitude of kernels. So version X of the application will run on kernel 2.4.*, 2.6.*, a.b.*, etc... For future expandability

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 2 May 2007, at 10:48, David Chinner wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On a different issue, do you think it would be worth adding an option flags like FIEMAP_DONT_RELOCATE or something similar that would be a compulsory flag and if set the FS

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 2 May 2007, at 11:57, David Chinner wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:36:12AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 2 May 2007, at 10:15, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: And all applications will run against a multitude of kernels

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
- issue without thinking about it first... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-05-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-13 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Andreas, On 13 Apr 2007, at 05:01, Andreas Dilger wrote: On Apr 12, 2007 12:22 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 12 Apr 2007, at 12:05, Andreas Dilger wrote: I'm interested in getting input for implementing an ioctl to efficiently map file extents holes (FIEMAP) instead of looping over

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-13 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
. to all flamers: I am going to delete any non-technical flames without replying so please do us all a favour and don't bother... Thanks. -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http

Re: [RFC] add FIEMAP ioctl to efficiently map file allocation

2007-04-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: use memclear_highpage_flush to zero page data

2007-04-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [patch 2/3] fs: introduce perform_write aop

2007-03-09 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
. +*/ This is a rather useless comment :) Better remove it and add a proper descriptions to Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt and Documentation/filesystems/Locking Will do. Thanks! -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-05 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 5 Mar 2007, at 14:37, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:22:06PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: And I specifically did NOT update the initialized size in the inode thus it will remain at its old value thus all new allocated blocks will be considered as present

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
the file size rather than just the allocated size). And that is it. No zeroing needs to happen at all because we have not updated the initialized size of the inode! glibc can only dream of an implementation like this. (-; Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
would allocate a large consecutive region and then go and drop random blocks from that region thus making the file fragmented. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On 5 Mar 2007, at 00:32, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On 5 Mar 2007, at 00:16, Jörn Engel wrote: On Sun, 4 March 2007 14:38:13 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: When you do it like this, who can the kernel/filesystem *guarantee* that when the data is written there actually is room on the harddrive

Re: [patch 9/9] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks

2007-02-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:59:58 + (GMT) Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:51:07 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. If we find the destination page

Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards

2006-11-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org

Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: update documentation (take #2)

2005-08-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
have in the kernel. Otherwise it looks great. We should make sure either Linus or Andrew apply it. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-20 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Linus, On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. Actually, hold on. The original patch had

Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
the generic kernel symlink mechanism any more. So it would be good to find and kill the bug. The patch is tested and does indeed make the hangs and bad page state messages go away. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:20 +0100, Al Viro wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:14:48PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: There is a bug somewhere in 2.6.11.4 and I can't figure out where it is. I assume it is present in older and newer kernels, too as the related code hasn't changed much

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything smbfs does anyway... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
dentry *, char __user *, int); Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ http://www

Re: [PATCH] NTFS: Set ictx-ir in ntfs_index_lookup

2005-07-23 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
spotted, thanks. Fix will be in next ntfs release. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net

Re: Print inode number if name can not be represented in the local charset

2005-07-21 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
not a error. Instead of this print warning in dir.c, this warning includes inode number for further investigation (e.g. with ntfsinfo). I applied something simillar to your patch to my private tree so it will be in the next ntfs release. Thanks for the patch. Best regards, Anton -- Anton

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
. (To complete the picture the different local directories are actually the same remote directory but mounted with access permissions for each user separately using ncpfs.) Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

Re: Access content of file via inodes

2005-04-07 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
, simply unmap the page if you have mapped it and do a page_cache_release() on the page. Hope this helps. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs

Re: fishy -put_inode usage in ntfs

2005-03-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:17 +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:44 +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: So every time we get a concurrent clear_inode() and iget() for the same inode what happens? We get your Failed to get bitmap attribute. every time? Or can clear_inode

Re: Efficient handling of sparse files

2005-02-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe

Re: fishy -put_inode usage in ntfs

2005-02-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:48 +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:42 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:40:39PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: I am not sure what you mean. The VFS layer does reference counting on inodes. I have no choice

Re: fishy -put_inode usage in ntfs

2005-02-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:50 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:48:26PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: If the igrab() were not done, it would be possible for clear_inode to be called on the 'parent' inode whilst at the same time one or more attr inodes (belonging

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-06 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
fops-write() otherwise? Or have I missed some way in which the fops-write() case can be optimized? Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages - nopage alternative

2005-02-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
the write protection thing. Is your driver's source available to look at? Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a patch which adds a function mm/filemap.c::find_or_create_pages(), locks a range of pages. Please see the function description in the patch for details. This isn't very

Re: RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 02:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:34 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a patch which adds a function mm/filemap.c::find_or_create_pages

RFC: [PATCH-2.6] Add helper function to lock multiple page cache pages.

2005-02-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you propose can I do to perform the required zeroing in a deadlock safe manner whilst also ensuring that it cannot happen that a concurrent -readpage() will cause me to miss a page and thus

Re: Advice sought on how to lock multiple pages in -prepare_write and -writepage

2005-01-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Andrew, Thanks a lot for your help! Some comments below... On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you propose can I do to perform the required zeroing in a deadlock safe manner whilst also ensuring that it cannot happen

Advice sought on how to lock multiple pages in -prepare_write and -writepage

2005-01-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
? Thanks a lot in advance for any advice/suggestions you can give me... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux

Q: inode-i_data vs. inode-i_mapping?!?

2001-07-08 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
to the i_data field? It seems like a silly redundancy but there is probably something I am missing... TIA for your time. Best regards, Anton -- Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http

Re: [PATCH][RFC] inode-u.nfs_i allocated separately

2001-06-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
get_empty_inode() to accept the size (or slab cache) of the inode required or something... Just a thought... Anton -- Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sf.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ICQ

Re: [PATCH][RFC] inode-u.nfs_i allocated separately

2001-06-22 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
-- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sf.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][RFC] inode-u.nfs_i allocated separately

2001-06-22 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
-- Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sf.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ -- Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexandre Dumas

Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems

2001-03-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
, I/O speed is bound by the HD, not by the CPU, so whether the fs-code is a bit slower or not will not make any difference in the actual disk access case. (Cache access is of course a different matter.) Just my 2p. Regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace

RFC: [PATCH] ext2 BLOCK_SIZE independence

2001-03-11 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
and works fine here. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at with @) Linux NTFS maintainer / WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ diff -urN linux-2.4.2-ac18-vanilla/fs/ext2/super.c

Question: fs meta data, page cache and locking

2001-03-08 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
It was suggested to repost the below as a new thread and to cc: linux-fsdevel. Any comments would be appreciated. TIA, Anton So here goes: At 12:41 08/03/01, Ingo Oeser wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:39:27AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: [snip, attributions lost

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix securityextensions

2000-10-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hans, At 18:30 28/10/2000, Hans Reiser wrote: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: You can't possibly have both using the same API since you would then get name collision on filesystems where both named streams and EAs are supported. (And I haven't even mentioned EAs and named streams attached

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix securityextensions

2000-10-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: How would you distinguish the file filename/1 from the named stream filename/1? I wouldn't, they are the same thing. If you need to emulate some filesystem which needs to distinguish them, then I would have the emulator (SAMBA?) call them filename/1 vs. filename