Hello Xavi,
Ok - thanks. I was hoping that this was how read
and write were working (i.e. with absolute offsets
and not just getting relative offsets from the current
seek point), however what of the raw seek
command?
len = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
Upon successful completion, lseek() returns
the resulting offset location as measured in
bytes from the beginning of the file.
Any idea on where the return value comes from?
I will need to fake up a file size for this command ..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Xavier Hernandez"<address@hidden>
To:<address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] lseek
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:48:17 +0200
Hello Ian,
there is no such thing as an explicit seek in glusterfs.
Each readv,
writev, (f)truncate and rchecksum have an offset parameter
that tells
you the position where the operation must be performed.
If you make something that changes the size of the file
you must make it
in a way that it is transparent to upper translators. This
means that
all offsets you will receive are "real" (in your case,
offsets in the
uncompressed version of the file). You should calculate in
some way the
equivalent offset in the compressed version of the file
and send it to
the correspoding fop of the lower translators.
In the same way, you must return in all iatt structures
the real size of
the file (not the compressed size).
I'm not sure what is the intended use of NONSEEKABLE, but
I think it is
for special file types, like devices or similar that are
sequential in
nature. Anyway, this is a fuse flag that you can't return
from a regular
translator open fop.
Xavi
On 05/14/2012 03:22 AM, Ian Latter wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a seek (lseek) implementation in
one of the modules and I can't see one.
Do I need to care about seeking if my module
changes the file size (i.e. compresses) in Gluster?
I would have thought that I did except that I believe
that what I'm reading is that Gluster returns a
NONSEEKABLE flag on file open (fuse_kernel.h at
line 149). Does this mitigate the need to correct
the user seeks?
Cheers,
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