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2017 Nov 09
10
Experiment on how to improve our temporary file handing.
...me can be given with linkat. Unfortunately we can't use linkat(fd, "", AT_FDCWD, "destination", AT_EMPTY_PATH) Without special permissions and have instead to depend on proc: linkat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/fd/<num>", AT_FDCWD, "destination", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW) Another annoyance is that linkat will not replace the destination and renameat2 doesn't support AT_EMPTY_PATH. The result is that we have to use unlink+linkat and loop. On windows there is FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, but there seems to be no way to cancel it. If a file is created with it I ca...
2017 Nov 13
2
Experiment on how to improve our temporary file handing.
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:46:32PM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola > <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote: > > Davide Italiano <davide.italiano at gmail.com> writes: > > > >>> I couldn't find any support for this on FreeBSD. > >>> > >> > >> AFAIK FreeBSD supports
2009 May 03
6
[RFC] The reflink(2) system call.
Hi everyone, I described the reflink operation at the Linux Storage & Filesystems Workshop last month. Originally implemented as an ocfs2-specific ioctl, the consensus was that it should be a syscall from the get-go. Here's some first-cut patches. For people who have not seen reflink, either at LSF or on the ocfs2 wiki, the first patch contains Documentation/filesystems/reflink.txt to