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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:21:05 -0500
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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Subject: Re: O_DIRECT fails in some kernel and FS
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On Monday, February 04, 2002 10:04:45 AM -0500 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 

No, reiserfs can mmap files of size 1k.  Data past the end of file is
zerod on write.

-chris

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