[Gluster-devel] mmap not working

[Anand Avati]

Mickey,
 if you can get it working, and if some reasonable amount of testing has
happened on it, we can include it in the glfs patched fuse.

thanks,
avati

2007/12/10, Mickey Mazarick <mic at digitaltadpole.com>:
>
> I haven't tested this with tcp yet either, but I'm pretty sure it's fuse
> that's preventing mmap from working fully.
> I've turned direct-io off, but mmap functions still throw errors. I did
> attempt to side-step the problem by creating a loop device and mounting
> it but that didn't work for the same reasons.
>
> It's my understanding that fuse doesn't support mmap writing fully.
> There is a questionable patch out there:
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2007/11/15/417491
>
> Is this something that's worth trying add to the  patched glusterfs fuse
> module? I was going to take a stab at it but wanted a second opinion
> because my C skills are now half a decade rusty.
>
>
> Thanks!
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