It should have read:
additions to read full page:
(within the per-buffer read)
is the file tailmerged?
if so, does this part map the tail block?
if so, get the tail block and copy the tail to the page
additions to write full page:
(within the per-buffer write)
is the
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Andreas Dilger wrote:
You never mention what happens when a file doesn't have a tail yet,
but then gets one...
Every file has a tail, unless it is exactly some number of blocks long. The
tail is the part at the end that doesn't fill a block completely. In my
Daniel,
Here's the proposed mount-time tailmerging algorithm which was originally
posted as an attachment summarizing a series of emails between me and Stephen
Tweedie on this subject:
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[snip]
first of all I admit to only just joining this list and consequently,
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
On 8/1/00, 2:45:11 PM, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writing past tail?
if so, unmerge tail block
generic file write
additions to write full page:
(within the per-buffer write)
is the file tailmerged?
if so, does
