Re: XFS and O_STREAMING

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:45, Buzbee, James wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> > 
> > We do use generic_file_write, it is just buried underneath our own
> > layer. O_STREAMING sounds like the old dropbehind stuff and should
> > work just fine.
> 
> 
> Hmmm... I'm trying it with 2.4.18 and xfs 1.1  For debugging, I put 
> "printk's" at the top of generic_file_read and generic_file_write in 
> linux/mm/filemap.c (the patched file) and I never see any output from 
> the generic_file_write, just from the generic_file_read.

Ah, you mean back in ancient history we did not use it, we do in
more recent code. To be honest I cannot remember what the code 
might have been doing in 1.1 anymore.

Steve

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