In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
>Ok, so now you need to teach the consumers like NFS to de-interleave the
>cookies from the dirents, which isn't all that straight forward because
>the dirents are all various sizes. Not a hard problem to solve, but I
>don't see what the net gain
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
Putting the cookie into the dirent means either changing the size of the
dirent struct and breaking the userland ABI (almost as bad as ch
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
>>
>>
>>>Putting the cookie into the dirent means either changing the size of the
>>>dirent struct and breaking the userland ABI (almost as bad as changing
>>>the siz
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
Putting the cookie into the dirent means either changing the size of the
dirent struct and breaking the userland ABI (almost as bad as changing
the size of stat, but not quite), or making a 'kdirent' struct and then
ma
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* Thus spake Simon L. Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On 2005.11.10 14:04:06 +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> > * Thus spake Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > dwhite 2005-11-09 22:03:50 UTC
> > >
> > > FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > > Mo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes:
>Putting the cookie into the dirent means either changing the size of the
>dirent struct and breaking the userland ABI (almost as bad as changing
>the size of stat, but not quite), or making a 'kdirent' struct and then
>manually shifting and copyi
Doug White wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White writes
:
This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cookies and devfs.
The PR and patch have the details. The ultimate fix requires architectural
changes and clarificati
On 2005.11.10 14:04:06 +0100, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Thus spake Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > dwhite 2005-11-09 22:03:50 UTC
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sys/kern vfs_subr.c
> > sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c
> >
Hi,
* Thus spake Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> dwhite 2005-11-09 22:03:50 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/kern vfs_subr.c
> sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c
> Log:
> This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cooki
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS uses dirent as the
layout in directories as a microoptimization.
>>>
>>> I think the reason is exactly the opposite.
>>
>> Care to elaborate ?
>
>I think ffs is older than the current `stru
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I don't think I've seen any other proposals than to put it in
dirent where it rightfully belongs.
The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS use
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> I don't think I've seen any other proposals than to put it in
>> dirent where it rightfully belongs.
>>
>> The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS uses dirent as the
>> layout in directori
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I don't think I've seen any other proposals than to put it in
dirent where it rightfully belongs.
The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS uses dirent as the
layout in directories as a microoptimization.
I think the reason is exactly the opp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White writes:
>> The proper fix is to put the cookie in the dirent and abandon the
>> microoptimization that UFS/FFS stores struct dirent directly on
>> the disk.
>
>It would be nice if you guys could sit down and figure out just which
>"proper fix" you want im
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White writes
> :
>
> > This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cookies and
> > devfs.
> > The PR and patch have the details. The ultimate fix requires architectural
> > changes and clarificat
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Doug White wrote:
dwhite 2005-11-09 22:03:50 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/kern vfs_subr.c
sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c
Log:
This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cookies and devfs.
The PR and patch ha
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White writes
:
> This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cookies and devfs.
> The PR and patch have the details. The ultimate fix requires architectural
> changes and clarifications to the VFS API, [...]
The proper fix is to put the cooki
dwhite 2005-11-09 22:03:50 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/kern vfs_subr.c
sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c
Log:
This is a workaround for a complicated issue involving VFS cookies and devfs.
The PR and patch have the details. The ultimate fix
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