Anand Avati <avati@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In meta all file sizes are 0 (since the contents of the inode are generated > dynamically on open()/read(), size is unknown during lookup() -- just like > /proc). And therefore all meta file open()s are forced into direct_io_mode ( > http://review.gluster.org/7506) so that read() requests are sent straight > to FUSE/glusterfs bypassing VFS (size is ignored etc.) I found the code in the kernel that skips the read if it is beyond known file size. Hence I guess the idea is that on lookup of a file with a size equal to 0, a special handling should be done so that reads happens anyway. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
