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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: disk write testingRe: disk write testing
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:08:06 +0100 Greg Haerr wrote: > Bjorn/Linus, > I've got a buffer-cached version of the fat32 disk working, > caching for the time being only data sectors (currently it's just > modified file.c, not fat.c for testing) I hadn't quite realized what a great > job Linus did optimizing the routines for extremely fast > sequential reading and writing, and my original design didn't > handle that... It was Björn, actually. > Anyways, another question: currently, the creat() call > does an open(...,O_WRONLY), lseeks are disallowed, > and the fat chain is truncated at close time past the > last cluster written. Do we want to make a distinction for > the new write code so that creat() and open(...,O_WRONLY) > act differently, that is, open(...,O_WRONLY) allows > seeking and appending to end-of-file? This would allow logfiles, > etc to be written, which can't be handled now. We (Björn) are working to get that functionality, with the O_RDWR flag. /Linus Received on 2002-11-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |