[openbeos] Re: Question about Jobs(Command Line)

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:09:53 -0400

>It's part of the file system info.  Recommended transfer size.  I think
>the current 64K limit in BFS is too small, so I'm using 256K in my
>file system (the file system defines it).  Various commands, like "cp"
>use it to set their buffer size.
>
>To get it, use fs_stat_dev() and look at the io_size field.
>
>> Anyway, I think of having an additional open mode to have uncached file 
>> access - it's already there for BSD, so we could just copy their flag 
>> (O_DIRECT or O_NOCACHE).
>> It's already part of fcntl.h in the repository, and maybe we will 
>> implement it already in R1.
>
>Yet another nice thing about OpenBeOS being open source; we can
>implement whatever we want!  Now all we need is a good VM and file
>system cache combination...

Is that a hint? I am working on it. ;-)


Other related posts: