Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 Mar 2002 15:36:19 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: LFS Support for Sendfile |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > The API (kernel syscall) as defined does not support LFS. > >I wonder does it really need to? I mean, a loop calling sendfile for >2GB (or whatever) at a time is almost as good, if not better in some >ways. > > The "extent based" filesystems offer flatter performance, and > while I can't determine if ReiserFS is exactly of that type, it > too offers fast and flat performance. > >Reiserfs (v3) isn't extent based but does perform pretty well. When I >was messing large numbers of with (what at the time were) large files >of 50GB or so, XFS proved to be very effective. > > > --cw >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > extents are in reiserfs v4.0 (September ship date), and should offer much improved performance for large files.
Hans
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