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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:05:04AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> 
>     I agree is is not a big issue in this case - my interpretation of
>     tails was the end of any file could be packed, but if it is only
>     small files.....
> 
> But you can't mmap (say) a 1k file right now...  so right now this

huh?  You can mmap a file of any size > 0.  Is this a reiserfs
limitation or something?

	Jeff


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