Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:09:47 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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Peter Foldiak wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 18:48, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>David Masover wrote: >> >> >>>Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process? >>> >>>The idea of caching is that running >>> >>>cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat * >>> >>>is probably slower than >>> >>>cat * > baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz >>> >>> >>Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is significant. >> >> > >But if the glued "file" is a stream (or pipe?) you can't do everything >with it (e.g. seek() ) that you could do with a proper file, right? > > It does not need to be a pipe-like file. Seek can be implemented for a composite (glued) file.
>You may want to do everything with it that you can do with a proper >file. > >- >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/ > > > >
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