On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
It can be done, but the file system in question is unable to make any
reasonable specification of latency, and we are now done with any
consideration of even soft real time for this file system.
IMO giving no reasonable specification of latency in a case where the process
supplies a real long filename is not a problem. If the process cannot handle
it, it can limit the size itself.
No no. The file system can no longer make any specification of latency
for *any* file, because the act of locating *other* files may require a
name comparison on an arbitrarily long name along the way.
shap