>I don't see why the egg-laying, milk-giving woolly UNIX syscall pig >that is ioctl() couldn't be genetically engineered to concatenate >files as well ...
No, not ioctl(), fcntl()! You guys just don't understand the clear distinction between the two interfaces :-) >Anyone willing to work on a ufs prototype ? I actually believe this >could be done in a ~100 lines of code in ufs ... if you put in some >restrictions onto the sizes of files that can be concatenated (if >you don't, you'll have to copy a possibly huge number of partial >block lists). If the file is a multiple of the filesystem blocksize, then it should be possible; if not, it's going to be tough. (But updating all the pointers might not be all that easy). Casper _______________________________________________ ufs-discuss mailing list [email protected]
