Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750725AbWBYXXp (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:23:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750827AbWBYXXp (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:23:45 -0500 Received: from smtp.e7even.com ([83.151.192.19]:9877 "HELO smtp.e7even.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750725AbWBYXXo (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:23:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4400E6F8.1080907@st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:23:36 +0000 From: Peter Foldiak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Peter Foldiak , Maciej Soltysiak , Jesper Juhl , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser Subject: Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602250735l6161a96dte2805b772a89a436@mail.gmail.com> <612760535.20060225181521@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602251052p3e56334ei755c9ce2100e03c@mail.gmail.com> <1391154345.20060225203352@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <4400DA93.9080901@st-andrews.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 33 Rik van Riel wrote: >On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Peter Foldiak wrote: > >>sub-file" corresponding to a key-range. Writing a chapter should change the >>book that the chapter is part of. That is what would make it really valuable. >>Of course it would have all sorts of implications (e.g. for metadata for each >>part) that need to be thought about, but it could be done properly, I think. >> >> > >What happens if you read the first 10kB of a file, >and one of the "chapters" behind your read cursor >grows? > >Do you read part of the same data again when you >continue reading? > >Does the read cursor automatically advance? > > You should probably continue where you left off . >Your idea changes the way userspace expects files >to behave... > > Yes, I know. - 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/