Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Bob Copeland]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  The major reason seems to be that the FUSE version reads heavily from the
>  block device during pure write operations, while the kernel driver never.
>  There can be several non-exclusive explanations.

Yep, I suspect switching to the lower-level API plus switching to mmap()
and getting rid of various memcpy's in omfs.c would make a huge difference.
And also drop the line count without the hash table stuff.

>  Moreover when you're writing to a block device from user space then the
>  size and position of the block should be page aligned, otherwise you end up
>  doing unwanted synchronous reads instead of the believed asynchronous
>  writes.

Cool, thanks for the tips!

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