On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:43:05PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Which means that we would have to buffer the whole new file until the file
> >> gets closed. And _then_ proceed with parsing. AFAIK, the write syscall will
> >> translate into one ->write op if the size is <= PAGE_SIZE.
> >
> >Yes, but as long as we stick to <=PAGE_SIZE, which I hope we'll never go
> >above, then there's a much smaller chance that pdflush will kick off a
> >->write page event on a partial set.
> >
> FTR, I think mount options are limited to PAGE_SIZE too, so it looks like
> an ioctl is the only way for funky configurations.
If you look at it as ioctl vs. (re)mount, then yes. Using an alternate
method would be the way to go => allows you to specify an arbitrary number
of braches (as long as unionfs supports it.)
Jeff.
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