On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:49:13PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > How about providing a way to stop kernel (or filesystem) to make gaps > in files instead? Like some ioctl(fd, FS_NOGAPS, 1) -- pretty much > like 'doze has, just the opposite (on windows, this flag is "on" by > default).
Giving filesystems non-hole semantics is non-trivial. Not allowing for holes creates a lot of complications in unix-like filesystems. > But the main point is that samba has to keep track of things which it > doesn't do now, and those things becomes.. interesting (difficult if > at all possible to track) in multi-user/concurrent-writes environment. Samba is there to deal with a braindead protocol and braindead clients, so let it continue to do that. No need to push this into the kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
