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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:11:05 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102101303001.20995-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <14980.8856.555504.633075@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Julian Elischer writes:
>  > 
>  > I don't like the sound of that hack..
>  > are they doing something in Linux to tell Linux to not sync it?
> 
> Linux apparently only syncs mmap'ed files when they are closed (or
> when it is under memory pressure). Eg, linux treats every mmap'ed file
> as MAP_NOSYNC.

This may be just because the default mount option under linux is
equivalent to -async under FreeBSD.  Mmapped files shouldn't be synced
differently than ordinary files unless an mmap option specifies it.

Bruce



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